Hit the ground running with React, the open source technology from Facebook for building rich web applications fast. Updated for the latest React release, the second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to build React components and organize them into maintainable large-scale apps. If you're familiar with JavaScript syntax, you're ready to get started.

Through the course of this book, author Stoyan Stefanov helps web developers and programmers build a complete single-page application. You'll quickly learn why some developers consider React the key to the web app development puzzle.

• Set up React and write your first "Hello, World" web app
• Create and use custom React components alongside generic DOM components
• Build a data table component that lets you edit, sort, search, and export its contents
• Master the JSX syntax
• Use built-in Hooks and create your own custom ones
• Manage the app's data flow with reducers and contexts
• Use Create React App to take care of the build process and focus on React itself
• Build a complete custom app that lets you store data on the client

Stoyan Stefanov is a Facebook engineer. Previously at Yahoo, he was the creator of the smush.it online image-optimization tool and architect of the YSlow 2.0 performance tool. Stoyan is the author of JavaScript Patterns and Object-Oriented JavaScript, as well as a contributor to Even Faster Web Sites and High-Performance JavaScript. Additionally, he's a blogger (phpied.com) and frequent speaker at conferences like Velocity, JSConf, and Fronteers.