Independently Published The Road to React: Your journey to master plain yet pragmatic React.js

If you're looking to learn the fundamentals of React.js this is definitely the book for you. Some prior JavaScript knowledge always helps, but the author does a great job of walking you through the various concepts in an easy to understand manner.This book focuses on modern React implementation with Functional components and Hooks (not Class based components). Some ES6 JavaScript concepts are also explained such as arrow functions and spread/rest operators. I really enjoyed reading this book because it flows really nicely. Each chapter building on the previous.After going through React fundamentals the author touches on Legacy React with Class components, CSS styling in React and React project management. The last chapters focus on implementing more advanced features such as sorting and data pagination. Overall, this is a great starting point for someone looking to learn React.

I needed to learn React for a project I'm working on and was impressed by the content on Robin Wieruch's website so decided to buy this book. Really glad that I did. This is a practical, hands-on book and an easy read. The Fundamentals of React section in particular is well paced, introducing concepts clearly and simply with just enough detail. Each section builds on the next resulting in a clear understanding of why things are the way they are and how everything fits together. I found that this made it much easier to use what I had learned in my own applications and troubleshoot issues. Highly recommended even if you know just enough Javascript like me.

This is pure amateur: It’s badly written, the presentation is poor, the exercises on the whole without direction. It’s very much a print yourself book rather than a professionally published affair and sadly it shows. A technical editor really needed to have gone over this and direct the author and improve the English. As it stands, this feels like an unfinished work in progress.

A thorough, yet concise, walk through of the fundamentals of React with some great tips on ES6 along the way. The author has a knack of explaining things really well, without waffling. The examples are well-crafted. You could easily walk-through this book in a week. It won't take you to an advanced level of course - only practice and development of proper apps will do that - but it doesn't claim to do this. It's a great intro to the fundamentals. The author also has a great website (and I actually listened to his cool music, whilst doing the exercises in the book!). Definitely worth keeping track of his website, and other publications.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and felt it offered so much more than the project you complete.With recommended links at the end of each chapter the book helped me far more about React than I have from some books twice the price.There might be more technical depth in other titles, but this is a road to learn after all. Buy this as your first book and you will do well.