6 React Books worth reading: Learning React while quarantined
In the last article, I wrote about JavaScript books and went over the selection process when it comes to choosing potential books for the curriculum as a coding teacher. In this article, I ’ll be covering books about React, React Native, and the MERN stack (Mongo, Express, React, and Node).
Why React?
If there is a single javascript front-end library or framework you should learn, teach or adopt, it may have to be React.
Once a small library for the web, React has grown into a large and very diverse ecosystem that effectively empowers developers to learn one core “library” and apply it’s core concepts to a suite of additional libraries and frameworks to build UI components for the web, mobile apps, and even VR.
Those reasons as well as the demand and popularity of React, make a compelling argument to learn the core library and a few others. For those unfamiliar with React lets clarify a few things:
- React is a library, not a framework.
- It was released in 2013.
- Introduced JSX, an xml like super-set of JavaScript used to describe UI’s on the web
- React started gaining popularity…
