Introduction

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React Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

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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