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React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL

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Cover image for bash Cookbook, 2nd Edition React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL by Azat Mardan Published by Manning Publications, 2017
  1. Cover
  2. React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL
  3. Copyright
  4. React Quickly: Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL
  5. Brief Table of Contents
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Praise for React Quickly
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. About This Book
  12. About the Author
  13. About the Cover
  14. Part 1. React foundation
  15. Chapter 1. Meeting React
  16. Chapter 2. Baby steps with React
  17. Chapter 3. Introduction to JSX
  18. Chapter 4. Making React interactive with states
  19. Chapter 5. React component lifecycle events
  20. Chapter 6. Handling events in React
  21. Chapter 7. Working with forms in React
  22. Chapter 8. Scaling React components
  23. Chapter 9. Project: Menu component
  24. Chapter 10. Project: Tooltip component
  25. Chapter 11. Project: Timer component
  26. Part 2. React architecture
  27. Chapter 12. The Webpack build tool
  28. Chapter 13. React routing
  29. Chapter 14. Working with data using Redux
  30. Chapter 15. Working with data using GraphQL
  31. Chapter 16. Unit testing React with Jest
  32. Chapter 17. React on Node and Universal JavaScript
  33. Chapter 18. Project: Building a bookstore with React Router
  34. Chapter 19. Project: Checking passwords with Jest
  35. Chapter 20. Project: Implementing autocomplete with Jest, Express, and MongoDB
  36. Appendix A. Installing applications used in this book
  37. Appendix B. React cheatsheet
  38. Appendix C. Express.js cheatsheet
  39. Appendix D. MongoDB and Mongoose cheatsheet
  40. Appendix E. ES6 for success
  41. React Cheatsheet
  42. Index
  43. List of Figures
  44. List of Tables
  45. List of Listings

Part 1. React foundation

Hello! My name is Azat Mardan, and I’m going to take you on a journey into the wonderful world of React. It will make your front-end development more enjoyable and your code easier to write and maintain, and your users will be delighted at the speed of your web apps. React is a game changer in web development: the React community has pioneered many approaches, terms, and design patterns, and other libraries have followed the path forged by React.

I’ve taught this material more than 20 times in my live-online and in-person workshops to hundreds of software engineers from very different backgrounds and varied levels of seniority. Thus, this material has been battle tested on my students: you’re getting the distilled, most effective version of my React foundation course in a written format. These chapters are critical to get you on familiar terms with React.

Chapters 1–11 are the result of almost two years of work by several people, but they read as a fast sequence of topics that build on each other. The best way to consume these chapters is to start with chapter 1 and proceed in order. Each chapter includes a video message from me; chapters 1–8 have a quiz at the end; and chapters 9–11, which are projects, contain homework for self-guided development.

All in all, this part of the book builds a solid foundation of React concepts, patterns, and features. Can you go to a foreign country and understand the language without studying? No—and that’s why you must learn the React “language” before you attempt to build complex apps. Thus, it’s paramount that you study these basic React concepts—that you learn the React language—which is exactly what you’ll do in the next 11 chapters.

Let’s get started with React—and learn to speak fluent React-ese.