Building User Interfaces for Modern Web Applications: React Programming

• Table of Contents 
• Preface 
• Chapter 1: Introduction and Setup 
• Chapter 2: HyperText Markup Language
• Chapter 3: Cascading Style Sheets & Bootstrap
• Chapter 4: JavaScript & JSX
• Chapter 5: React Components
• Chapter 6: Properties (Props) 
• Chapter 7: State 
• Chapter 8: Events 
• Chapter 9: Component Lifecycle and Reconciliation 
• Chapter 10: Conditional Rendering 
• Chapter 11: Lists 
• Chapter 12: Forms 
• Chapter 13: Lifting Up State
• Chapter 14: Think in React
• Chapter 15: React Routing 
• Chapter 16: Redux State Management 
• Epilogue: Where do we go from here? 
• Acknowledgement 
• Appendix: Selected Figure Descriptions
• Index 
• Bibliography 

Since Facebook released React as an open-source software library for front-end programming in 2013, React has gain popularity quickly. Although there are other frameworks or libraries, React is considered a programmer-friendly JavaScript library using the functional programming approach for the front-end web application development. Teaching and learning React can provide training in Functional Programming, Software Engineering Principles, and the Event-Driven Programming Paradigm. The ultimate goal of this eTextbook is to provide a timely support for teaching the state-of-the-art technology as the React ecosystem evolves.

In this eTextbook, the prerequisite concepts about HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap/React-Bootstrap are introduced first, followed by the main React language features. Finally, the Software Engineering Principles are introduced from the design, development, to debugging and maintenance. The main objectives are threefold: (1) provide concepts about JavaScript Programming, (2) introduce the concepts of modularity, functional programming, and (3) teach the concept of reusable User Interface (UI) as the front-end of modern model-view-controller (MVC) web applications.

Although learning other technologies in the React ecosystem is imminent, it is the hope that this book paves the groundwork for the future learning and growing in the field of modern UI development.