The React Handbook

Beta version 0.9.1

Hi! This repository contains the React Handbook content. I am still working on it, so please don't share it around as it might still be incomplete 🙂 ..trying to keep it private for the small newsletter subscribers community until I reach 1.0.

PDF version available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/asa9seowszkwdfq/react-handbook.pdf?dl=0

I'd appreciate any help you can provide in:

• proofreading
• telling me if some parts are not easy to digest
• pointing out things you think are missing

Feel free to open Issues or Pull Requests.

You can directly edit any chapter by opening it and clicking the "Edit" button in GitHub.

Summary:

• Overview
  • Introduction to React
  • How to install React
• Modern JavaScript core concepts you need to know to use React
  • How much JS you need to use React
  • Variables
  • Arrow functions
  • Work with objects and arrays using Rest and Spread
  • Object and array destructuring
  • Template literals
  • Classes
  • Promises
  • Async/Await
  • ES Modules
• React Concepts
  • Single Page Apps
  • Declarative
  • Immutability
  • Purity
  • Composition
  • The Virtual DOM
  • Unidirectional Data Flow
• In-depth
  • JSX
  • Components
  • State
  • Props
  • Presentational vs container components
  • State vs Props
  • PropTypes
  • Fragment
  • Events
  • Lifecycle events
  • Code splitting
  • Handling forms
  • Reference a DOM element
  • Server side rendering
  • Context API
  • Higher-order components
  • Render Props
  • Hooks
• Practical examples
  • Build a simple counter
  • Fetch and display GitHub users information via API
• Styling
  • CSS in React
  • SASS with React
  • Styled Components
• Tooling
  • Babel
  • Webpack
  • Prettier
• A look at the React Ecosystem
  • React Router
  • Redux
  • Redux Saga
  • Next.js
  • Gatsby
• Wrapping up