React: Up & Running, 2nd Edition

Hit the ground running with React, the open-source technology from Facebook for building rich web applications fast. With the second edition of this practical guide, Stoyan Stefanov--designer of the YSlow 2.0 performance tool--shows you how to build React components and organize them into maintainable, large-scale apps. If you're familiar with basic JavaScript syntax, you're ready to get started. Through the course of the book, web developers and programmers will build a complete custom app that lets you store data on the client. You'll quickly learn why some developers consider React the key to the web app development puzzle.