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React is a JavaScript library (MIT License) made by Facebook to create interactive UIs. It's used to create dynamic and reusable components. The most powerful thing about React is that can be used in the client, server, mobile applications, and even VR applications.

In the modern web, we need to manipulate the DOM constantly; the problem is that doing this a lot may affect the performance of our application seriously. React uses a Virtual DOM, which means that all updates occur in memory (this is faster than manipulating the real DOM directly). The learning curve of React is short in comparison with other JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue, or Backbone, mainly because the React code is mostly written with modern JavaScript (classes, arrow functions, string templates, and so on) and does not have too many patterns used to write code, like Dependency Injection, or a template system, like in Angular.

Companies such as Airbnb, Microsoft, Netflix, Disney, Dropbox, Twitter, PayPal, Salesforce, Tesla, and Uber are extensively using React in their projects. In this book, you will learn how to develop your React applications in the way they do, using best practices.

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Use essential hacks and simple techniques to solve React application development challenges

Create native mobile applications for iOS and Android using React Native

Learn how you can write robust tests for your applications using Jest and Enzyme

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React.js is Facebook's dynamic frontend web development framework. It helps you build efficient, high-performing web applications with an intuitive user interface. With more than 66 practical and self-contained tutorials, this book examines common pain points and best practices for building web applications with React. Each recipe addresses a specific problem and offers a proven solution with insights into how it works, so that you can modify the code and configuration files to suit your requirements. The React Cookbook starts with recipes for installing and setting up the React.js environment with the Create React Apps tool. You’ll understand how to build web components, forms, animations, and handle events. You’ll then delve into Redux for state management and build amazing UI designs. With the help of practical solutions, this book will guide you in testing, debugging, and scaling your web applications, and get to grips with web technologies like WebPack, Node, and Firebase to develop web APIs and implement SSR capabilities in your apps. Before you wrap up, the recipes on React Native and React VR will assist you in exploring mobile development with React. By the end of the book, you will have become familiar with all the essential tools and best practices required to build efficient solutions on the web with React.

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Understand complex topics such as Webpack and server-side rendering

Implement an API using Node.js, Firebase, and GraphQL

Maximize the performance of your React applications

Create a mobile application using React Native

Deploy a React application on Digital Ocean

Get to know best practices when organizing and testing a large React application

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Maxx Traxx Sep 18, 2018

Being new to React I really needed something that was beyond the ole "Hello World" or "To Do" app tutorials and this book is great for that! Easy to follow with real world examples, I enjoyed that and the author's casual style; excellent code samples and a good approach for solving real problems. Recommended!

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Peter Pham Nov 14, 2018

Overall, I believe the book is good, but there are certain things that are not explained in detailed that should be. It could be confusing to some people that are complete beginners to web development. One instance would be, that some of the CSS is using SASS notation and won't work properly.The code examples are great and are easy to follow. If you take the time to understand the underlying code, it is a great foundation to build off of.I would recommend this book to people learning React.

Nick May 20, 2019

This book has a good source of information but it is poorly written for a beginner and full of typos. Much of the code is written without any explanation. Fortunately I was able to Google much of what was being introduced. None of the firebase commands are explained but I found them from reading the docs. The author just expects you to be familiar with firebase. The Redux chapter starts off with a good introduction but fails to explain the code as it continues rattling off commands without any explanation. My coding background helped me to understand many other unexplained concepts but I can't imagine if I didn't have any coding experience how lost I would be.CONCLUSION:The good: it shows how to use fullstack react using mongo, graphql, redux, node, Express, and several other methods to build the frontend and backend of web apps. It provides a good path on how to move forward in your journey on react.The Bad: Most of the book contains unexplained code and assumes that you understand the new concepts being introduced without any explanation such as the use of axios without defining the arguments and firebase commands and redux section. This book introduces great concepts such as how to integrate mongodb, using apollo, etc. But requires the reader to pick up many other books or read documentation or blogs to understand the specifics. I would recommend fullstack react over this book as it offers better explanations such as the two ways setState method works in accepting an object or a arguments of current state and a callback function.

Lynn and Scott May 29, 2019

I am a raw React beginner. This book starts off OK. But, after that the code is not explained well and (for me) several instructions are not working. I had high hopes for this book because of all the topics related to React it covered. If you are a beginner try another book.

martin pszczola May 19, 2019

If you are going to shell out the high price of texts like this, get the paper version. The Kindle version formatting is terrible.

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