Physical is probably not that good for learning a framework
Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
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Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#12Why restrict yourself to physical. There is a big world of online courses on React and many are free.
Do you have any recommendations?
Read the official React documentation and view courses on egghead.
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#13Physical is probably not that good for learning a framework
I work all day at a computer. I enjoy spending time away from the screen — I find it easier to absorb new information and harder to be distracted.
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#14Bonus points: I'd like to be reading about a recent version of React, not a book that was published in 2018.
I understand that you want a paper book, but just to be safe: have you already seen https://beta.reactjs.org/learn ? It’s really good.
Sheepishly, I have not. Sounds like a good place to start! Thank you!
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#15Road to React, is a decent book (and the only one I read), but honestly I would recommend watching a few tutorials instead. If you worried about outdatedness just try to get a book made after the introduction of React Hooks which should be end of 2018/early 2019. I think the physical Road to React on Amazon isn't updated, don't buy that lol, best to buy the ebook file from that dudes website and read it off of a kind…
Any favorite video tutorials?
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#16Maybe you are looking for "React: Up & Running: Building Web Applications" 2nd Edition? Physical book published by O'reilly on December 2021. Author is Stoyan Stefanov, a facebook engineer (ex fb I think?). Has good reviews. It's also only 230 pages.
https://www.amazon.com/React-Running-Building-Web-Applicatio...
Hooks (functions?) are the way forward for React. Classes were the old way. But this book has both. Author's rationale is "A controversial decision was the inclusion of class components in addition to function components. Function components are likely the way forward; however, the reader is likely to encounter existing code and tutorials that talk only about class components. Knowing both syntaxes doubles the chances of reading and understanding code in the wild". Seems reasonable.
Also definitely take a look at the React Docs Beta at https://beta.reactjs.org/
They seem to be a substantial improvement over the previous docs. All explanations are written using Hooks rather than classes.
I love this 10 min intro video to React Docs Beta by Rachel Nabors from React Conf 2021. Has subtitles. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneDaMYOKP8
Some comments have said React might be a way to hell, so if you wanna improve your JavaScript or CSS, there are 2 well-regarded paid courses:
Just JavaScript by Dan Abramov. He's a member of the React team, and a co-author of Redux and Create React App. https://justjavascript.com/
CSS course by Josh Comeau. https://css-for-js.dev/
Both are paid courses.
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#17I like "Learning React" 2nd Edition (2020) by Ranks and Porcello. Emphasis is on functional programming and hooks.
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#18Maybe you are looking for "React: Up & Running: Building Web Applications" 2nd Edition? Physical book published by O'reilly on December 2021. Author is Stoyan Stefanov, a facebook engineer (ex fb I think?). Has good reviews. It's also only 230 pages. https://www.amazon.com/React-Running-Building-Web-Applicatio... Hooks (functions?) are the way forward for React. Classes were the old way. But this book has both. Autho…
What would be relatively affordable high quality content for css
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#19Road to React, is a decent book (and the only one I read), but honestly I would recommend watching a few tutorials instead. If you worried about outdatedness just try to get a book made after the introduction of React Hooks which should be end of 2018/early 2019. I think the physical Road to React on Amazon isn't updated, don't buy that lol, best to buy the ebook file from that dudes website and read it off of a kind…
Any favorite video tutorials?
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-a-beginners-guide-to-react-...
Made by Kent, some dude that wrote a popular testing library for React. Pretty good tutorials. I'm quite positive that it's up to date.
Re: Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
#20Why restrict yourself to physical. There is a big world of online courses on React and many are free.
Do you have any recommendations?
Scrimba has a good free React course.