Learning ReactA hands-on guide to building maintainable, high-performing web application user interfaces using the React JavaScript library As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps much, much easier.What React isn';t, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until now. In Learning React, author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help you understand the fundamentals of React and how to use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps.Build your first React appCreate components to define parts of your UICombine components into other components to build more complex UIsUse JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScriptDeal with maintaining stateWork with React';s way of styling contentMake sense of the mysterious component lifecycleBuild multi-page apps using routing and viewsOptimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack, and othersContents at a GlanceChapter 1 Introducing ReactChapter 2Building Your First React AppChapter 3 Components in ReactChapter 4 Styling in ReactChapter 5 Creating Complex ComponentsChapter 6 Transferring Properties (Props)Chapter 7 Meet JSXAgain!Chapter 8 Dealing with StateChapter 9 Going from Data to UIChapter 10 Working with EventsChapter 11 The Component LifecycleChapter 12 Accessing DOM ElementsChapter 13 Creating a Single-Page App Using React RouterChapter 14 Building a Todo List AppChapter 15 Setting Up Your React Development EnvironmentChapter 16 The EndChapter 17 (Web Edition)Working With External DataChapter 18 (Web Edition) Creating a Sliding Menu Using React MotionRegister your book at informit.com/register for free access to the Web Edition and two exclusive bonus chapters.