English | September 18th, 2018 | ISBN: 1783980729 | 176 Pages | EPUB | 23.03 MB

Over 66 hands-on recipes that cover UI development, animations, component architecture, routing, databases, testing, and debugging with React

Key Features

 Use essential hacks and simple techniques to solve React application development challenges

 Create native mobile applications for iOS and Android using React Native

 Learn to write robust tests for your applications using Jest and Enzyme

Book Description

Today's web demands efficient real-time applications and scalability. If you want to learn to build fast, efficient, and high-performing applications using React 16, this is the book for you. We plunge directly into the heart of all the most important React concepts for you to conquer. Along the way, youll learn how to work with the latest ECMAScript features.

You'll see the fundamentals of Redux and find out how to implement                                                           animations. Then, youll learn how to create APIs with Node, Firebase, and GraphQL, and improve the performance of our application with Webpack 4.x. You'll find recipes on implementing server-side rendering, adding unit tests, and debugging. We also cover best practices to deploy a React application to production. Finally, youll learn how to create native mobile applications for iOS and Android using React Native.

By the end of the book, you'll be saved from a lot of trial and error and developmental headaches, and youll be on the road to becoming a React expert.

What you will learn

 Gain the ability to wield complex topics such as Webpack and server-side rendering

 Implement an API using Node.js, Firebase, and GraphQL

 Learn to maximize the performance of React applications

 Create a mobile application using React Native

 Deploy a React application on Digital Ocean

 Get to know the best practices when organizing and testing a large React application

Who this book is for

If youre a javascript developer who wants to build fast, efficient, scalable solutions, then youre in the right place. Knowledge of React will be an advantage but is not required. Experienced users of React will be able to improve their skills.