Codified ⌬ reviewed React Projects - Second Edition by Roy Derks
Review of React Projects - Second Edition
4 stars
I’m going to say that I completed this but to be honest stopped right after the bigger examples that weren’t really specific to the topic. I may however come back to them later.
Now to the book, it’s a really good introduction course into the basics of react you will need to know. I previously read a small part of another book and plowed ahead but quickly got into trouble. If you read all the sections dedicated to learning react, you will have a good grounding.
There is however a downside, the react framework moves fast or at least faster than a lot of other languages frameworks do. This book is designed for a much older version of react but it’s still fine, everything compiles. There will be warnings on compilation but when you’re finished, you can come back to your projects and upgrade from “create-react-app” to using “vite” and …
I’m going to say that I completed this but to be honest stopped right after the bigger examples that weren’t really specific to the topic. I may however come back to them later.
Now to the book, it’s a really good introduction course into the basics of react you will need to know. I previously read a small part of another book and plowed ahead but quickly got into trouble. If you read all the sections dedicated to learning react, you will have a good grounding.
There is however a downside, the react framework moves fast or at least faster than a lot of other languages frameworks do. This book is designed for a much older version of react but it’s still fine, everything compiles. There will be warnings on compilation but when you’re finished, you can come back to your projects and upgrade from “create-react-app” to using “vite” and the issues will disappear.
I’d still recommend this to an absolute beginner like I was. It has all the core knowledge you need, you’ll happily create a react website after.
