If you have basic HTML/CSS and
JavaScript skills and you want to learn React, this book is for you. It has
been carefully crafted and streamlined so it won’t waste any time on outdated
skills. Instead, you will focus on the most current skills for developing React
apps.
This book begins with a seven-chapter
crash course that teaches the basics of React development. By the end of this
course, you will know how to use JSX, props, state, and hooks to develop a
React component that gets its data from a web API.
After the first seven chapters,
the modular design of this book lets you jump to any other chapter to learn new
skills as you need them. These skills include creating a single-page app (SPA),
styling with CSS modules, styling with Tailwind, managing complex state,
improving performance with memorization, validating props with TypeScript, unit
testing with Jest, and server-side rendering (SSR) with Next.js.
Each chapter features clear
examples, easy-to-understand explanations, best practices, and helpful tips. When
you finish these chapters, you’ll be able to use React to develop a web app in
a way that’s thoroughly professional.
Every Murach book guarantees
high quality. The realistic examples show how each feature works in context,
and the exercises at the end of each chapter let you gain valuable hands-on
experience.
Table of Contents:
Section 1 Get started fast
Chapter 1 Create your first React app
Chapter 2 Master JavaScript for React
Chapter 3 Develop components with JSX and props
Chapter 4 Add state to components
Chapter 5 Enhance components with hooks
Chapter 6 Use a web API
Chapter 7 Debug a React app
Section 2 More skills as you need them
Chapter 8 Create a single-page app with React Router
Chapter 9 Style an app with CSS modules or Tailwind
Chapter 10 Manage complex state
Chapter 11 Improve performance with memoization
Chapter 12 Validate properties with TypeScript
Chapter 13 Unit test with Jest
Section 3 Get started with Next.js
Chapter 14 Render on the server
Chapter 15 Create a web API
Review :
“Your book was indispensable to me. The answers were right there at every turn. All the examples made sense, and they all worked!”
—Alan Vogt, ETL Consultant, Massachusetts
