[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
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       Ask HN: Best (physical) book to learn React?
        
       I'd love to read through a book on React, but I'm surprised at the
       poor reviews on Amazon. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place. Who
       can point me to a good one (that maybe isn't sold from Amazon)?
       Alternatively, why should I not be considering React? Is everybody
       using something else these days? Looking to build a front-end to
       interact with some REST APIs.
        
       Author : zapstar
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-01-21 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | zapstar wrote:
       | Bonus points: I'd like to be reading about a recent version of
       | React, not a book that was published in 2018.
        
         | tomstuart wrote:
         | I understand that you want a paper book, but just to be safe:
         | have you already seen https://beta.reactjs.org/learn? It's
         | really good.
        
       | LAC-Tech wrote:
       | _Alternatively, why should I not be considering React? Is
       | everybody using something else these days? Looking to build a
       | front-end to interact with some REST APIs._
       | 
       | React is a decent choice for that. Go ahead and learn it.
       | 
       | If you want to do frontend in 99% of shops - React by itself is
       | not enough. People will tell you it's "just a library" - and
       | that's technically true.
       | 
       | But in the wild you'll be dealing with something I call
       | "Enterprise React". A bloated monstrosity of a web project
       | created with create-react-app (Which is a nightmare of needless
       | complexity under a thin and very slow veneer of convenience).
       | Your react and general coding skills will be secondary to your
       | skills as a sort of npm sysadmin, because best practices are to
       | download a library for every whim anyone ever has.
       | 
       | That is unless you never update it your packages while you are
       | there. Which honestly - I've recently learned - is the smarter
       | career play.
       | 
       | So sure, learn react, make your SPA. But be careful of getting
       | too deep into it, because that way lies madness.
        
       | hoofhearted wrote:
       | ReactJS is certainly worth learning. I personally use the Clone
       | Wars on GitHub as my instruction manual when I'm not sure how to
       | accomplish something with React and I want to see how it could be
       | built in the real world.
        
       | quickthrower2 wrote:
       | Why restrict yourself to physical. There is a big world of online
       | courses on React and many are free.
        
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