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The React Workshop

You're reading from The React Workshop Get started with building web applications using practical tips and examples from React use cases

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838645564

Length 806 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Authors (6):

Florian Sloot

Ryan Yu

Brandon Richey

Endre Vegh

Theofanis Despoudis

Anton Punith

+2 more

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with React

2. Dealing with React Events FREE CHAPTER

3. Conditional Rendering and for Loops

4. React Lifecycle Methods

5. Class and Function Components

6. State and Props

7. Communication between Components

8. Introduction to Formik

9. Introduction to React Router

10. Advanced Routing Techniques: Special Cases

11. Hooks – Reusability, Readability, and a Different Mental Model

12. State Management with Hooks

13. Composing Hooks to Solve Complex Problems

14. Fetching Data by Making API Requests

15. Promise API and async/await

16. Fetching Data on Initial Render and Refactoring with Hooks

17. Refs in React

18. Practical Use Cases of Refs

Appendix

1. Getting Started with React

Overview

This chapter will explain the context and the reasons for using React framework and Create React App by utilizing the different options and scripts available for Create React App. The Create React App CLI tool will enable you to bootstrap a React project quickly. You will learn how to build a React component entirely with functional and class syntax using basic JSX. You will also be able to use components together to better structure your code. In this chapter, you will learn about the context and history of the React JS framework and be able to bootstrap your first React project.

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Authors (6)

Brandon Richey

Brandon Richey

Brandon Richey is a software engineer and a React enthusiast who has written several popular React tutorials. He has been making professional and hobby programming projects spanning healthcare, personal sites, recruiting, and game development for nearly 20 years! Brandon is the author of the Packt book 'Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide'.

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Florian Sloot

Florian Sloot

Florian Sloot is a tech-lover since childhood and during his development years, he learned the importance of teaching and guiding. Therefore, as he got some experience with building applications, he started publishing learning resources himself. To date, he has taught hundreds of students and co-workers.

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Anton Punith

Anton Punith

Anton Punith is a technology enthusiast and a creative person who loves to build things. Working over a decade in front-end-development, he is an old school developer who believes in clean hand-coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. He fell in love with CSS and JavaScript when he first learned it and the romance still continues. He is an ardent learner who likes to share what he's learned.

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Endre Vegh

Endre Vegh

Endre Vegh is a software engineer at Helpfulpeeps where he spends most of his time building web and mobile apps using react and react-native.

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Ryan Yu

Ryan Yu

Ryan Yu is a senior UI engineer, writer, and speaker. He specializes in React with Redux and WebGL. His specialties and passion have led him to create a frontend course, FrontEnd 30, helping many developers and engineers improve their skills. He has led many web projects for government departments, universities, and banks. He has also contributed to developing several design systems built with React. He has also developed SEM & BIO to manage CSS in a better way.

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Theofanis Despoudis

Theofanis Despoudis

Theo Despoudis lives in Ireland, where he works as a Software Engineer for WP Engine and as a part-time tech practitioner for Fixate. He is the co-author of The React Workshop and Advanced Go Programming in 7 Days, Dzone Core Member, and maintains some open source projects on GitHub. Theo is available for conference talks, independent consulting, and corporate training services opportunities.

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