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Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux 1st Edition

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If you want to learn how to build efficient user interfaces with React, this is your book. Authors Alex Banks and Eve Porcello show you how to create UIs with this small JavaScript library that can deftly display data changes on large-scale, data-driven websites without page reloads. Along the way, you’ll learn how to work with functional programming and the latest ECMAScript features.

Developed by Facebook, and used by companies including Netflix, Walmart, and The New York Times for large parts of their web interfaces, React is quickly growing in use. By learning how to build React components with this hands-on guide, you’ll fully understand how useful React can be in your organization.

Learn key functional programming concepts with JavaScript
Peek under the hood to understand how React runs in the browser
Create application presentation layers by mounting and composing React components
Use component trees to manage data and reduce the time you spend debugging applications
Explore React’s component lifecycle and use it to load data and improve UI performance
Use a routing solution for browser history, bookmarks, and other features of single-page applications
Learn how to structure React applications with servers in mind

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O'Reilly Media
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2017
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Alex Banks is a software engineer, instructor, and cofounder of Moon Highway, a curriculum development company in Northern California. As a software consultant, he has developed applications for the Chicago Marathon, MSN, and the Department of Energy. Alex also assisted in the development of the continuous delivery curriculum that is delivered to every Yahoo new hire. In addition, he's authored several classes for Lynda.com.

Eve Porcello is a software architect and cofounder of Moon Highway, a curriculum development company in Northern California. Prior to Moon Highway, Eve worked on software projects for 1-800-Dentist and Microsoft. She is an active corporate trainer, speaker, and author on Lynda.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1491954620
Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (June 13, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781491954621
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491954621
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.33 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 3.75 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Amy L. Collins

Great resource for updating to ES6, learning about functional programming, and learning about React

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019

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"Learning React" is a book that was written for someone such as myself – a seasoned programmer, but someone who wanted a primer on some of the core concepts of functional programming; who wanted a guide the bigger points of what’s changed from ES5 to ES6; who needed a little convincing as to why MVC frameworks are the end-all-be-all in the web these days.

And that's just the first three chapters.

After getting through the more theoretical chapters, the meat of the book was a color picker built from start to finish over the course of the book. From passing props to state management to Redux, the examples started with the most basic of concepts and built into more complex data management.

The book comes with a link to the GitHub repository with the code samples in it, and it’s super easy to follow along with what has been written having the code samples open and color-coded in my preferred code editor, VS Code.

This is a book that got me excited about writing code. It has me walking and talking functional programming, and I was able to go out and almost immediately apply the concepts I learned in it to current projects. It promises to be a book "for developers who want to learn the React library while learning the latest techniques currently emerging in the Javascript language", and it delivers.

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Michael D.

In-depth coverage of React and the ecosystem of React

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2018

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Overall, this book was worth my time and money. So, absolutely no regrets with the purchase. For me, the book didn't come across as a "type along as you read" type of book, which I do find useful in reinforcing a subject. Rather, this book is more of the in-depth type where pages contain paragraphs of description and there is a snippet of a code sample to reference. Nothing wrong with that, but I wanted to point it out in my review to set anyone's expectations before purchasing the book. That said, if I may digress for a minute, when I first tried my hand with a React project back in spring 2015, I remember it being architecturally different than the 1.x version of AngularJS and part of learning of React for me at that time was understanding how React was to to fit in the overall work of a single-page app / web app. After that two-week immersion with React, I actually stopped using it due to other priorities and due to my place-of-work's commitment to AngularJS at the time. Now, fast-forward to January 2018 and I am going through this book. The world of JavaScript has changed much since spring 2015. We live with ECMAScript 2015, 2016 and 2017. I decided to purchase this book because I felt that I already knew the quick-and-dirty of setting up a React app (at least I thought I did), but wanted something that would explain what is current in the world of React and get into the subject at a deeper level than what would be found with online tutorials. This book does all of that. Be aware that this book is for those already familiar with ECMAScript 2015 and later. The code examples are written using ECMAScript 2015 syntax, so if you haven't stayed current with JavaScript, you'll want to be sure to read and re-read chapter 2 of the book which does a good job of covering ECMAScript 2015 -- not exhaustively, but enough to prepare you for the rest of the book's code samples. Like other reviewers have pointed out, I did spot typos / grammatical errors in the book, hence the star deduction. This book is the type where you'll want to highlight key topics and be prepared to read chapters several times to really absorb all of the information being presented. If you are not strong with JavaScript, you may find this book overwhelming despite the title being "Learning React." The book assumes, like I mentioned, current knowledge of JavaScript and doesn't attempt to teach JavaScript in addition to teaching React.

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Korpo

Great for a functional start into React

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2018

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I came to this book as an experienced functional programmer and as beginner in JavaScript and React. I left with a working knowledge of the React and Redux frameworks that I could immediately apply into building a web app. I greatly appreciated how the authors showed the object-oriented way of using the framework but also always turned back to showing how to do the same in a functional way.

I got exactly what I wanted out of this book and I tried several alongside it to compare. Some intro knowledge about Node.js is recommended to tackle this one, though, so I recommend combining it with "Beginning Node.js" by Basarat Ali Syed. That one helped me bridge the knowledge gap, and launched me into exploring the topic on my own and adding in custom libraries, etc.

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mycloc

This is probably the best book/learning resource I've seen for React so far

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2017

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This is probably the best book/learning resource I've seen for React so far. It has really helped to distill and clarify the things I've learned about React from various other sources, including training videos (which don't seem to go into enough depth sometimes). The intro on functional and declarative programming offered a good mix of theory as well. I'll definitely keep this on the shelf as a reference book that I'll go back to again and again.

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Concepts explained well, could use some proof reading.

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2017

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I was dismayed at the apparent lack of proof reading (particularly given that it is an O'Reilly book), but found the concepts and examples useful.

Author does take trouble to lead up to examples that build on prior concepts by showing preliminary examples first. Emphasis on "functional" approach was new to me and I think explained well.

For some tasks though the preliminary steps are left out, such as on page 99 where for "npm install" it is not mentioned that it matters which directory you are in before running that command. Some typos: pg 45 "change arrays into objects" by context there clearly meant "change objects into arrays", pg. 48 "on callback" seems to have meant "one callback".

Only opinion that seemed dubious to me was pg. 50 suggestion that "Recursion should be used" whenever possible over counters, loops, ....as it is fun and can do so, where the software permits. Recursion seems to me the best way to do some things sometimes, but also seem to me inherently less efficient for simple count or loop operations if you look at the background work required to support recursive calls versus the simplicity of count operations (IMHO).

It did explain Redux well enough that I was able to use it for a work related problem. That alone made it worth it for me.

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Ken B

Great to see authors updating the git code to reflect new (>16) React standards. It's on React Redux -not flux as per the title.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2017

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I am still working through this book as I write this (Oct 2017) - but I wanted to jump online and say that I am impressed how quickly the git code was updated by the authors to reflect the new standards in react 16 (that came out practically in conjunction with the release of the book). This is very impressive and helpful - no need to focus on deprecated approaches. I'm speaking specifically of the effects of the deprecation of createClass , effects on property validation and [somewhat hidden] new updater function on setState.

Other than that the book offers a good practical introduction to functional programming, ES6 and React/Redux. Overall it is the most comprehensive book I have read on React, covering reduct-react and a host of advanced topics , in the latest standards of Javascript. There are a few errors through bad editing, which are annoying but I put up with them because the text in general is good. The second edition of this book will be an opportunity to be a 5 star book. I would recommend this to a friend to purchase if asked.

Also for some reason the title here on Amazon uk says React and Flux, -its really about React and Redux (passing mention to flux only which is fine).

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Ste Jay

Well written, easy to follow

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2020

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I was struggling a bit to get my head around React for a new job role. This book helped answer a lot of "why" questions I had and has given me the confidence to get going along with the rest of my team; I've even been able to add a few useful suggestions to my colleagues who have a lot more experience than me. I'd definitely recommend it.

Frederique

Gives you insight on "what is going on" when you first encounter React

Reviewed in Canada on October 31, 2018

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This book has helped me in my situation which I will describe (I understand that compete novices or complete gurus may have different takes).

I took an online React course, and promptly got lost. I didn't understand the "WHY" and "HOW", and, in general, "what was going on". (This is while knowing ES6 etc.) I couldn't even articulate a question, since basically I was lost in "everything".

This book cleared, for me, the "what was going on". Each separately, the book and the video course, would have been either too theoretical (the book) or too "stop this avalanche" (the practice). But both have complemented each other.

Paul Schwartzberg

thoughtfull

Reviewed in Germany on February 3, 2020

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... this one is thoughfully written.

With so many software books that pull it together but remain portmanteau's of whatever is googleable with a few "kilroy was here first" exercises ... this one considers what's behind the programming paradigms that drive the design of React at different levels, especially in the first few chapters. Thus the book comes off as incitefull about what it covers.

harvey

Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2020

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Good for everyone, whether you are experienced in JavaScript, new to the React framework specifically, or new to Javascript in general.
Well-written & well structured.

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