Focused on building rich web applications, this updated guide offers a hands-on approach to mastering React, the open-source technology from Facebook. Aimed at those with JavaScript knowledge, it teaches readers to create and organize React components into scalable applications. Author Stoyan Stefanov guides developers through the process of constructing a complete single-page application, highlighting why React is regarded as essential in web app development.
React is a new, open-source technology from Facebook that has stirred quite a storm in the web development community, and some would say it s the next best thing to a silver bullet for building web applications. With "React: Up and Running" you'll learn how to get off the ground with React, with no prior knowledge. This book teaches you how to build components, the building blocks of your apps, as well as how to organize the components into large-scale apps. In addition, you ll learn about unit testing and optimizing performance, while focusing on the application s data (and letting the UI take care of itself)."
What's the best approach for developing an application with JavaScript? This book helps you answer that question with numerous JavaScript coding patterns and best practices. If you're an experienced developer looking to solve problems related to objects, functions, inheritance, and other language-specific categories, the abstractions and code templates in this guide are ideal―whether you're using JavaScript to write a client-side, server-side, or desktop application. Written by JavaScript expert Stoyan Stefanov―Senior Yahoo! Technical and architect of YSlow 2.0, the web page performance optimization tool― JavaScript Patterns includes practical advice for implementing each pattern discussed, along with several hands-on examples. You'll also learn about common programming approaches that cause more problems than they solve.