Hit the ground running with React, the open source technology from Facebook for building rich web applications fast. Updated for the latest React release, the second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to build React components and organize them into maintainable large-scale apps. If you're familiar with JavaScript syntax, you're ready to get started.

Through the course of this book, author Stoyan Stefanov helps web developers and programmers build a complete single-page application. You'll quickly learn why some developers consider React the key to the web app development puzzle.

Set up React and write your first "Hello, World" web app
Create and use custom React components alongside generic DOM components
Build a data table component that lets you edit, sort, search, and export its contents
Master the JSX syntax
Use built-in Hooks and create your own custom ones
Manage the app's data flow with reducers and contexts
Use Create React App to take care of the build process and focus on React itself
Build a complete custom app that lets you store data on the client

About the Author

Stoyan Stefanov is a Facebook engineer. Previously at Yahoo, he was the creator of the smush.it online image-optimization tool and architect of the YSlow 2.0 performance tool. Stoyan is the author of JavaScript Patterns and Object-Oriented JavaScript, as well as a contributor to Even Faster Web Sites and High-Performance JavaScript. Additionally, he's a blogger (phpied.com) and frequent speaker at conferences like Velocity, JSConf, and Fronteers.

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