Projects like Angular and React are rapidly changing how development teams build and deploy web applications to production. In this book, you'll learn the basics you need to get up and running with React and tackle real-world projects and challenges. The book includes helpful guidance on how to consider key user requirements within the development process, and also shows you how to work with advanced concepts such as state management, data-binding, routing, and the popular component markup that is JSX. As you complete the included examples you'll find yourself well-equipped to move onto a real-world personal or professional frontend project.
After completing this book, you will be able to:
- Understand how React works within a wider application stack
- Analyze how you can break down a standard interface into specific components
- Successfully create your own increasingly complex React components with HTML or JSX
- Correctly handle multiple user events and their impact on overall application state
- Understand the component lifecycle to optimize the UX of your application
- Configure routing to allow effortless, intuitive navigation through your components
