Gain insights into V15 React fundamentals, API work, code organization, testing, and state management. Discover hands-on skills by building a Hacker News App for your portfolio.

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If you’re working with a legacy React codebase, then this course will prove useful. React has seen a great deal of change over the years, but there might be situations where you have to work with an older version.

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of V15 React. You will learn how to work with an API, how to organize and test your code as well as how to give your React app state. Throughout this course, you will have hands-on experience building a fully functional Hacker News App. By the end of this course, you will be prepared to build your own applications and have something to showcase in your portfolio.

If you’re looking for the updated version of this course featuring V16, please visit The Road to React: The one with Hooks.

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Eric Priou

The Road to learn React by Robin Wieruch is a must read. Clean and concise for React and JavaScript.

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Nicholas Hunt-Walker

This is one of the most well-written & informative coding books I’ve ever worked through. A solid React & ES6 introduction.

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Andre Vargas

The Road to Learn React by Robin Wieruch is such an awesome book! Most of what I learned about React and even ES6 was through it!

Muhammad Kashif

I recommend this to any student or professional interested in learning react basics to advanced level. I have 17 years of experience in web and desktop app development, and before reading this I was having trouble in learning react. It works like magic.

The Road to React: The One with Class Components

The *node package manager* (npm) installs external node packages from the command line. These packages can be a set of utility functions, libraries, or whole frameworks, and they are the dependencies of your application. You can either install these packages to your global node package folder, or to your local project folder.

Global node packages are accessible from everywhere in the terminal, and only need to be installed to the global directory once. Install a global package by typing the following into a terminal:

This lesson is a crash course in node and npm. It is not exhaustive, but it will cover all of the necessary tools. If you are familiar with both of them, you can skip this section.

Introduction

Intro to React and some JavaScript Basics

Basics in React

Getting Real with an API

Code Organization and Testing

Advanced React Components

State Management in React and beyond

Final Steps to Production

Appendix: Bootstrapping your React App

npm and node (Optional)