Ask HN: Best book to learn ReactJS?

Not "books" exactly, but I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics.

If you really _do_ want some actual books, I have links to several at the end of the "React Tutorials" page in my list, and this recent post lists a number of React books with some short summaries: https://reactdom.com/blog/reactjs-books .

There is an online course '30 days of React' with an online PDF which teaches React in small chunks.

You can also use React[2] and Redux[3] tutorials by New Boston and practice along with the course.

Other than that, You can go through React documentation or register for courses on Udemy and Pluralsight.

Links [1] https://www.fullstackreact.com/30-days-of-react/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6gx4Cwl9DGBuKtLgPR_z...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6gx4Cwl9DGBbSLZjvleM...

Books are great for learning the more academic aspects of programming-- when you're trying to wrap your mind around an unfamiliar concept, a high-quality explanation can be really helpful. When you're trying to pick up a new framework, though, the bigger challenge is usually figuring out where all of the controls are. The best (only?) way to do that is by building a simple project, and looking up what you don't know along the way. I'd advise staying clear of all of the other other popular tools in the React ecosystem (Redux, Immutable, etc...) until you've worked through the basics of how React works on its own. Learn to write messy React code first, then learn the idioms.

Hands on book to build your first own application in plain React: https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react/

- state management

- fetching data

- interactions like search and sort

- pagination

- client-side caching

- ...

3rd edition will be released soon. 2nd edition was released in January, so it's pretty up to date and will stay up to date.