The Opinionated Guide to React

A handbook to help you navigate the intricate world of React

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A handbook to help you navigate the intricate world of React

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This book is my personal map of the tips, power-ups, and not-so-obvious solutions to common questions and problems that I've come across during 4 years of React development.

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👋 I have been thinking about writing this book for quite a while now. The idea came mostly from having been using React for a long time, and really missing some sort of opinionated guide to help me navigate through its world. Basically, I got sick of all of the "it depends" and overly complicated language that I encountered when trying to get answers for specific questions, so I decided to start writing my own guide, hoping it helps as many people as possible. Hope you like it and would love some feedback. Thank you

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5yr ago

@nikkitaftw thank you for this amazing work and for sharing your expertise. My feedback is below.

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5yr ago

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@sallywa00913632 thank you so much!

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5yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Sara's done an amazing job condensing her years of experience on complex projects into something you can use to navigate the React ecosystem. Not only that, but you just have fun reading this book and learning from the examples. There are not that many programming books out there that will make you laugh while reading them and actually teach you something more complex, like how to understand how specific React hooks work under the hood. I appreciate that Sara didn't write a book for beginners, but for people who are in the position of making these technology choices (whether for their side projects or company apps). 10/10, Congrats Sara!

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5yr ago

CodeSandbox

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@monicalent Thank you son much Monica! Means a lot :)

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5yr ago

Polypane

Haven't gotten very far into this book yet (saving it to read with a tech book club!) but I love that it also has a website that I can search and just have open in my browser, and what I've read so far is well written and fun to read.

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5yr ago

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@kilianvalkhof thank you so much! It makes me super happy you are liking it and also super nice to know about the tech reading club 😁

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5yr ago

Only a couple of chapters into this amazing book and I cannot wait to learn more from Sara. With years of design and coding behind me ( I am getting on ) I am new to React and loving this journey. But, there are so many 'gotcha's'. Sara's book is so refreshing and fills such a huge gap. This is pure expert knowledge delivered so eloquently and with humour ( which I love ). Even a seasoned React pro would learn from this superb knowledge and expert opinion. Thank you, Sara. This is helping me more than I could ever imagine in navigating my study into React. Please write more... 10/10

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5yr ago

CodeSandbox

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@weblake Hey Elliot! Thank you so much for your feedback, it really means a lot to me you are liking this book :D Can't wait to hear your feedback when you finish :) Also super happy you like my style of writing and find it funny, I really tried to inject some humour :)

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5yr ago

@nikkitaftw All credit and praise to you. I hope you have more titles planned ( just to add to your workload hee hee ).

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5yr ago

I finished this book just this morning and throughly enjoyed it. Sara breaks down React in a very accessible way and given her sheer throughput of putting useful things into the world in the past couple of years using React, her opinions come from battle-tested experience.

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5yr ago

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@barry_mcgee1 This makes me really happy to hear! Thank you so much!

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5yr ago

This book was a huge source of knowledge as I transitioned from native to web development. Not only it is hilarious, but it's also a deep analysis of React subjects. What I love the most are, as from the title, all the opinions described in this book, and their rationale. Sara doesn't impose anything, instead she shows pros and cons of many alternatives, and gives tools to the reader to build their own opinions.

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5yr ago

CodeSandbox

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@paola_ducolin1 Thank you so much! You were one of the first people to read it and it made gain the motivation to keep at it :)

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5yr ago

Experiment.com

@nikkitaftw, love your writing style! Such an enjoyable read for a React newbie like me. I will be coming back to this book often as a reference. Don't stop writing!

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5yr ago

CodeSandbox

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@cindywu Thank you so much! Means a lot as a non native speaker you like my writing style :)

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