React Quickly

Book excerpt: Summary React Quickly is for anyone who wants to learn React.js fast. This hands-on book teaches you the concepts you need with lots of examples, tutorials, and a large main project that gets built throughout the book. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Successful user interfaces need to be visually interesting, fast, and flowing. The React.js JavaScript library supercharges view-heavy web applications by improving data flow between UI components. React sites update visual elements efficiently and smoothly, minimizing page reloads. React is developer friendly, with a strong ecosystem to support the dev process along the full application stack. And because it's all JavaScript, React is instantly familiar. About the Book React Quickly is the tutorial for web developers who want to get started fast with React.js. Following carefully chosen and clearly explained examples, you'll learn React development using your existing JavaScript and web dev skills. You'll explore a host of different projects as you learn about web components, forms, and data. What's Inside Master React fundamentals Build full web apps with data and routing Test components Optimize React apps About the Reader This book is for developers comfortable building web applications with JavaScript. About the Author Azat Mardan is a Tech Fellow at Capital One with extensive experience using and teaching JavaScript and Node, and author of several books on JavaScript, Node, React, and Express. Table of Contens PART 1 - REACT FOUNDATION Meeting React Baby steps with React Introduction to JSX Making React interactive with states React component lifecycle events Handling events in React Working with forms in React Scaling React components Project: Menu component Project: Tooltip component Project: Timer component PART 2 - REACT ARCHITECTURE The Webpack build tool React routing Working with data using Redux Working with data using GraphQL Unit testing React with Jest React on Node and Universal JavaScript Project: Building a bookstore with React Router Project: Checking passwords with Jest Project: Implementing autocomplete with Jest, Express, and MongoDB APPENDIXES Appendix A - Installing applications used in this book Appendix B - React cheatsheet Appendix C - Express.js cheatsheet Appendix D - MongoDB and Mongoose cheatsheet Appendix E - ES6 for success