The Opinionated Guide to React

by Sara Viera

Who is this book for?
Is that person you? That is the ultimate question.

I want to start by saying that this book will not teach you how to use React from scratch, and it also won't teach you some advanced diffing algorithm.

The target audience isn't really about experience in this book, I wrote this for anyone who sometimes feels like they need a map to navigate the React world.

I will share my knowledge and things that I have used through all my years of React, my opinions on several packages, and ways of making things, I will share what helped me so that it can hopefully, help you.

There will be opinions you don't agree with, and that's okay. We are all different, and we all build things differently. What I want you to get out of this book is a way to find possible paths, make sense of the tools, concepts, and packages you come across while building things with React, and to help making you feel confident enough to do a project from start to end or to speak up in a company meeting with your idea.

I hope you learn as much from this book as I learned writing it.

190 pages, ebook

Published August 12, 2020

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Für das, was es ist, sehr gut. Da es nicht wirklich ein Buch ist, was man am Stück durchliest, sondern mehr ein Nachschlagewerk, hätte ich das lieber gedruckt auf dem Schreibtisch liegen. Liefert auf jeden Fall viele gute Ansätze für Menschen wie mich, die von den vielen Optionen in der Webentwicklung - speziell react hier - überfordert sind.

"The target audience isn't really about experience in this book, I wrote this for anyone who sometimes feels like they need a map to navigate the React world."

Man darf hier nicht erwarten, react zu lernen, man darf auch nicht erwarten, dass man ohne react-Kenntnisse viel mit dem Buch anfangen kann. Unterm Strich ist es genau das, was der Titel sagt, eine sehr subjektive Sicht auf react, welches State-Management nimmt man, welchen react-Starter für neue Projekte usw.

Ich hatte das Buch gekauft(https://opinionatedreact.com/), man kann es aber auch a href="https://reactguide.netlify.app/"... online lesen.

[Lucy Batson · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a largely self-taught developer, the lack of "why" in documentation and tutorials is often the most frustrating part of getting familiar with new technology. So I loved this book, which is relatively short but packed with useful tidbits on various aspects of the React ecosystem. I look forward to this getting expanded, and more writing from her in the future!

[Jules · Rating 4 out of 5]

A helpful guide for anyone who's somewhat new to React and unsure of how to do things due to the vast amount of choice available. This was also a fun read and I liked how open the author is about her misgivings / lack of confidence in certain areas. Definitely makes me feel less alone in how inadequate I feel most of the time as I'm using React. 😅

[Leira · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a great insight on a programmer's way of using React. I learned how stuff I use in my projects is also used by someone else but applied differently. The Guide is super practical. What I love the most is that, although it's a technical book, it was actually engaging to read!

[Xavier Malparty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice tips and great toknow where to start with react