If you want to learn how to build efficient React applications, this is your book. Ideal for web developers and software engineers who understand how JavaScript, CSS, and HTML work in the browser, this updated edition provides best practices and patterns for writing modern React code. No prior knowledge of React or functional programming is necessary.

Authors Alex Banks and Eve Porcello show you how to create UIs that can deftly display changes without page reloads on large-scale data-driven websites. You’ll also discover how to work with functional programming and the latest ECMAScript features. Once you learn how to build React components with this hands-on guide, you’ll understand just how useful React can be in your organization.


Alex Banks and Eve Porcello are software engineers, authors, and trainers. With their company Moon Highway, they’ve taught JavaScript, Node, React, and GraphQL courses to engineers all over the world. They’ve also created videos and authored training content for O’Reilly, LinkedIn Learning, and egghead.io.