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Learning React A hands-on guide to building maintainable, high-performing web application user interfaces using the React JavaScript library
As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps much, much easier.

What React isn’t, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until now. In Learning React, author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help you understand the fundamentals of React and how to use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps.

Build your first React app
Create components to define parts of your UI
Combine components into other components to build more complex UIs
Use JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScript
Deal with maintaining state
Work with React’s way of styling content
Make sense of the mysterious component lifecycle
Build multi-page apps using routing and views
Optimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack, and others

Contents at a Glance
Chapter 1 Introducing React
Chapter 2 Building Your First React App Chapter 3 Components in React Chapter 4 Styling in React
Chapter 5 Creating Complex Components
Chapter 6 Transferring Properties (Props)
Chapter 7 Meet JSX–Again!
Chapter 8 Dealing with State
Chapter 9 Going from Data to UI
Chapter 10 Working with Events
Chapter 11 The Component Lifecycle
Chapter 12 Accessing DOM Elements
Chapter 13 Creating a Single-Page App Using React Router
Chapter 14 Building a Todo List App
Chapter 15 Setting Up Your React Development Environment
Chapter 16 The End Chapter 17 (Web Edition) Working With External Data Chapter 18 (Web Edition) Creating a Sliding Menu Using React Motion
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Kirupa Chinnathambi has spent most of his life trying to teach others to love web development as much as he does. In 1999, before blogging was even a word, he started posting tutorials on kirupa.com. In the years since then, he has written hundreds of articles, written a few books (none as good as this one, of course!), and recorded a bunch of videos you can find on YouTube. When he isn’t writing or talking about web development, he spends his waking hours helping make the web more awesome as a Program Manager in Microsoft. In his non-waking hours, he is probably sleeping...or writing about himself in the third person.

You can find him on Twitter (twitter.com/kirupa), Facebook (facebook.com/kirupa), or email (kirupa@kirupa.com). Feel free to contact him anytime.

Introduction
1. Why React?
2. Building Your First React App
3. Components
4. Working with External Data Sources
5. Building Custom React Components
6. Building a Visually Complex Application
7. Routing Techniques using React Router
8. Building a Multi-Page App
9. Working with Animations
10. Setting up Your Dev Environment
11. Adding Flux into the Mix
12. Testing Your React Applications

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Learning React

Learning React

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