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A fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js

About This Book

Build maintainable and performant user interfaces for your web applications using React.js
Create reusable React.js components to save time and effort in maintaining your user interfaces
Learn how to build a ready-to-deploy React.js web application, following our step-by-step tutorial

Who This Book Is For

If you're a front-end developer with knowledge of jQuery and its libraries, along with frameworks, such as Angular.JS and Backbone.JS, or native JavaScript development, and you wish to use the fastest web user interface library there is, then this book is ideal for you.

What You Will Learn

Install powerful React.js tools to make development much more efficient
Create React elements with properties and children
Get started with stateless and stateful React components
Use JSX to speed up your React.js development process
Add reactivity to your React components with lifecycle methods
Integrate your React components with other JavaScript libraries
Utilize the Flux application architecture with your React components
Test your React components with Jest test framework

In Detail

Building web applications with maintainable and performant user interfaces is a challenge that many have faced for more than a decade, but no one has risen to this challenge quite like React.js. Today React.js is used by Facebook, Instagram, Khan Academy, and Imperial College London, to name a few. Many new users recognize the benefits of React.js and adopt it in their own projects, forming a fast-growing community. The speed at which React.js has evolved promises a bright future for those who invest in learning it today.

React.js Essentials will take you on a fast-paced journey through building your own maintainable React.js application. Begin by exploring how you can create single and multiple user interface elements. Create stateless and stateful components and make them reactive, learn to interact between your components and lifecycle methods and gauge how to effectively integrate your user interface components with other JavaScript libraries. Delve deep into the core elements of the Flux architecture and learn how to manage your application using stores. Finish by going that extra mile with the Jest test framework, running multiple tests on your application and find solutions to scale it further without complexity.

Style and approach

The book adopts a step-by-step, hands-on approach with ample codes to ensure you learn React.js at a fast pace.

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Artemij Fedosejev is a technical lead living in London, United Kingdom. He is a self-taught web developer who has been a web developer since the early 2000s. Artemij earned his BSc in computer science from University College Cork, Ireland. He participated in the IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme, where he built and launched a website that received the Most Innovative Project award. After graduation, Artemij moved to London to help local start-up companies build their products. He worked with JavaScript, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, and other modern web technologies. After gaining some experience in the start-up industry, Artemij was presented with an opportunity to join Imperial College, London, work on a research and development, project and take leadership in creating frontends for a couple of web applications in the public health space. He played a key role in creating frontend architecture using React.js and Flux for WGSA.net and Microreact. org. Artemij created a number of open source projects such as Snapkite Engine, Snapkite Stream Client, and other projects, which can be found on his GitHub account at https://github.com/fedosejev. He is also the author of the http://react.tips website.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing (August 27, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781783551620
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783551620
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.47 x 9.25 inches

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Chris House

but it would have been nice to see the code working at the end of ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2016

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My one small complaint is how most of the code didn't run until the example project was completely finished. I just sort of had to trust that the code does what he says it does. It all eventually clicked into place, but it would have been nice to see the code working at the end of each section. But overall I liked this book a lot. It helped me learn React, which is really all a book like this should be expected to do. Artemij writes clearly, and the examples were error-free.

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A good introduction to reactjs features with some advanced topics like flux and testing with jest

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2016

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I really liked this book as a general introduction to react, It also give some good advice's in best practices and goes beyond introducing advanced concepts like the flux architecture and testing.

I think the advanced stuff is very Facebook biased so if you are looking for some redux and mocha this is not the case.

Also will loved to see some ES6.

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2016

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Not great. Had a very confusing time learning anything. English is obviously not the author's first language. Probably not the best of projects to go through the tutorial with in order to learn the data flow, and literally nothing can be reused for any sort of parallel learning project.

The good: The author responds to the support forums on the publisher's website very expediently and friendly. The book provides a great resource for explaining the lifecycle of a component, which is about when everything finally started to click for me.

The bad: I still felt completely lost after this book. I felt confident to build simple stateless components, but beyond the component lifecycle I mentioned above, I don't think I learned much. It was just enough to get me excited about the possibilities though. Seems way more concise than Angular, and I like how there is a separation of concerns (components) rather than a separation of technologies (html, css, js). Anyway, before I digress, my biggest gripe with this book is the way the author doesn't properly explain what we're building, proceeds to dump multiple lines of code on you, and then says "Tada! Now let's have a look at what we just did..." *dumps the exact same code on you without explaining what any of it did*

Anyway, I would highly recommend the book "Pro React" instead of this title. I learned a lot, and I felt like I could use a lot of the code to boilerplate my own projects as opposed to this useless twitter stream picture grabber thing that I'm still not quite entirely sure how or why it does anything.

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Michael Sankovich

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018

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A decent look at the library, but it comes up a bit short on a few topics.

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Prakasan Kottakkudy

Too many pre-requisites to get started

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2016

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I like to learn a technology by doing the examples in the book. But the numerous tools required to install and the vague instructions to install them make me keep the book away. I wish the author picked a better example that needs only less tools and only a few steps required so that the reader can quickly jump into the real contents and start learning.

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B. Jones

Short and sweet

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2016

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I appreciate the fact this book lacks fluff you so often see in technical books. The project is short and to the point.

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2015

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Application example is not real life example. But very usefull and simle. i like it.

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Matthew Vincent

Confusing code layout

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2016

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The long variable names used in the code for this book make for a very frustrating to read style and confusing page layout. One of the less impressive technical books I've read, though the first couple chapters were a good intro to the subject.

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ShammyB

Good book, but a couple of minor mistakes make it less useful for JS beginners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 13, 2016

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A good book, with one big editorial mistake, and one smaller technical mistake. Not biggies for competent JS devs looking to move to React, but may be issues for JS beginners.

The big editorial mistake is that the book project does not work until right at the end, so it is difficult for the reader to check their work or experiment with the project at the end of each chapter (via console.log and breakpoints) to consolidate what they have just learned. The user would also need a build file that makes browserify create sourcemaps up-front so that debug is possible (which only needs a {debug:true} in the right place, but is not mentioned).

It would have been far better if all the React components were built as static place-holders first, then fleshed out as the project progressed (this is not only entirely possible, but also the way Facebook recommend you do it in their docs). That way, there are no dependencies (missing components) that prevent the project working at the end of each chapter.

The second problem is that the instructions to set up the development build script (and specifically babel) are out of date. The solution is on the book github threads, but NOT in the publisher's book errata page, which threw me a bit (I had worked it out myself by the time I thought to look on github, but that took an hour of head-scratching). Perhaps the author might want to submit all the changes listed in the github book threads (or an errata.txt in the repo, referenced in the readme.md, which would be the perfect solution) so that we have them all in one succinct point of truth than can be printed and inserted into the book.

Nevertheless, helped me to get up to speed quickly, and would be useful for all existing web application devs looking to move to React. Beginners in JS web application development may want to look elsewhere though, as the points above will confuse, and potentially make beginners give up!

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R. Black

Looks like the book has lots of good content

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2016

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Looks like the book has lots of good content, however the author has chosen a twitter specific third party api filter as the starting point to the project, for me this has caused a number of stumbling blocks before I get to any of the generic react / react setup content I was looking for. The author has however set up a github, so hopefully they will respond to my issue and I can get past my inital set up problems with snapkite and on to the juicy react stuff.

Mr G.

Great introduction to ReactJS and Flux for better web UI development.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2016

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Good book very clear and easy to read style by the author. I'm already 25% through the book on the first day and would finish if I had more time. Well written with enough example code to explain but not overwhelm new developers. I recommend this book for any web developer who are comfortable with JavaScript and HTML. You don't have to be a Douglas Crockford level JS guru as all the example code and concepts are clearly explained. The book will inspire you to atleast dabble with React (aka ReactJS) and the Flux architecture pattern.

My only very minor criticism (so far) is the overuse of the longer JavaScript methods to contruct the HTML view rather than the nicer JSX syntax (which allows you to intermix HTML inside JavaScript methods without having to surround with " or ' quotes).

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Michael SILVESTRE

Parfait pour commencer

Reviewed in France on January 21, 2016

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Certaines parties sont has been, mais c'est juste dû au fait que certains paradigmes tel que Flux sont un peu passés de mode. On appréciera tout de même l'entrée en matière, le style et les bonnes pratiques qui sont délivrées tout au long de ce livre.

Très bon pour débuter en React, mais pour le reste, il faut encore se fier à Messieurs G. pour plus d'informations. Vivement qu'une presse spécialisée rentre dans le vif du sujet.

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You have to know a lot to still grasp understanding ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2017

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You have to know a lot to still grasp understanding I didn't find it fully clear in all aspects of this book. It's okay but not for beginner

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