Learning React
A hands-on guide to building maintainable, high-performing web application user interfaces using the React JavaScript library
What React isn’t, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until now. In Learning React, author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help you understand the fundamentals of React and how to use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps.
- Build your first React app
- Create components to define parts of your UI
- Combine components into other components to build more complex UIs
- Use JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScript
- Deal with maintaining state
- Work with React’s way of styling content
- Make sense of the mysterious component lifecycle
- Build multi-page apps using routing and views
- Optimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack, and others
Contents at a Glance
Chapter 1 Â Introducing ReactÂ
Chapter 2Â Â Building Your First React AppÂ
Chapter 2Â Â Building Your First React AppÂ
Chapter 3 Â Components in React
Chapter 4Â Styling in React
Chapter 5Â Creating Complex Components
Chapter 6Â Transferring Properties (Props)Â
Chapter 7 Meet JSX–Again!
Chapter 8Â Dealing with State
Chapter 9Â Going from Data to UI
Chapter 10Â Working with Events
Chapter 11Â The Component Lifecycle
Chapter 12Â Accessing DOM ElementsÂ
Chapter 13Â Creating a Single-Page App Using React Router
Chapter 14Â Building a Todo List AppÂ
Chapter 15Â Setting Up Your React Development Environment
Chapter 16Â The End
Chapter 5Â Creating Complex Components
Chapter 6Â Transferring Properties (Props)Â
Chapter 7 Meet JSX–Again!
Chapter 8Â Dealing with State
Chapter 9Â Going from Data to UI
Chapter 10Â Working with Events
Chapter 11Â The Component Lifecycle
Chapter 12Â Accessing DOM ElementsÂ
Chapter 13Â Creating a Single-Page App Using React Router
Chapter 14Â Building a Todo List AppÂ
Chapter 15Â Setting Up Your React Development Environment
Chapter 16Â The End
Chapter 17 (Web Edition)Â Working With External Data
Chapter 18 (Web Edition) Creating a Sliding Menu Using React Motion
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