Introducing React and React Hooks
React is a JavaScript library used to build efficient and extensible web applications. React was developed by Meta and is used in many large-scale web applications, such as Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Shopify, Airbnb, Cloudflare, and the BBC.
In this book, we are going to learn how to build complex and efficient user interfaces with React, while keeping the code simple and extensible. Using the paradigm of React Hooks, we can greatly simplify dealing with state and effects in web applications, ensuring the potential for growing and extending the application later. We are also going to learn about React Context, React Suspense, and Form Actions, as well as how they can be used with Hooks. Finally, we are going to learn how to build our own Hooks and how to migrate existing applications from React class components to a React Hooks-based architecture.
In this first chapter, we are going to learn about the fundamental principles of React and...
