Quickly learn the most widely used front-end development language with ease and confidence

React JS Foundations: Building User Interfaces with ReactJS - An Approachable Guide walks readers through the fundamental concepts of programming with the explosively popular front-end tool known as React JS.

Written by an accomplished full-stack engineer, speaker, and community organizer, React JS Foundations teaches readers how to understand React and how to begin building applications with it. The book:

• Explains and clarifies technical terminology with relevant and modern examples to assist people new to programming understand the language
• Helps experienced programmers quickly get up to speed with React
• Is stocked throughout with practical and applicable examples of day-to-day React work

Perfect for beginner, intermediate, and advanced programmers alike, React JS Foundations will quickly bring you up to speed on one of the most useful and widely used front-end languages on the web today. You can start building your first application today.

WHY THIS BOOK?

My aim with this book is to provide an up-to-date and thorough explanation of React and the React ecosystem along with hands-on code that will prepare you to quickly start using React productively in the real world.

Prior to writing this book, I spent years using React in my everyday work as a fullstack developer and consultant. I also wrote and produced an online course for Pluralsight on testing React and wrote (and rewrote) my own React course that I've used to teach React at some of the largest companies in the world.

React has gone through several major changes in the years I've been working with it, but the core ideas behind it remain the same. If you deeply understand a few concepts, you can understand React regardless of how things change around the edges.

Although this book teaches all the latest syntax at the time of its writing, I've purposefully designed the book to give you an understanding of *why* React is how it is rather than just telling you how to code with it.

If you want to know the very latest syntax, check out the React website. If you want to understand React, check out my book!

Thank you for choosing to begin, or continue, your React journey with me.

About the Author

Chris Minnick is a prolific author, blogger, trainer, speaker, and web developer. His company, WatzThis? is dedicated to finding better ways to teach computer and programming skills to beginners.

Chris has been a full-stack developer for over 25 years, and a trainer for over 10 years, and has taught web development, ReactJS, and advanced JavaScript at many of the world's largest companies as well as at public libraries, co-working spaces, and meetups.

Minnick has authored or co-authored over a dozen technical books for adults and kids, including Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 for Dummies, Coding with JavaScript for Dummies, JavaScript for Kids, Adventures in Coding, and Writing Computer Code.