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Introduction

This chapter is from the book

How This Book Is Organized

This book walks you through writing two web applications:

  • Ottergram – A photo-sharing site for some of the most charming marine animals, Ottergram introduces you to React applications and components.

  • Code Café – Code Café takes you through a number of React techniques for managing state, setting up routing, and communicating with a server.

Working through these applications will introduce you to a number of tools, including

  • the Visual Studio Code editor

  • Node.js and npm (the Node package manager)

  • documentation resources such as the Mozilla Developer Network

  • Google Chrome’s Developer Tools

  • React hooks

  • ESLint

  • React Router

  • Websockets

  • the React Testing Library

  • Cypress

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