Mehul Mohan - Advanced Web Development With React

My Family and Friends

My mom, dad, sister, and close friends, who have always believed in me.

Mehul Mohan is an entrepreneur, developer and a security researcher. Currently, he is pursuing his bachelors degree in CSE at BITS Pilani. He is a WWDC19 Scholar and runs codedamn a platform for people to learn coding. Youll often find him creating programming tutorials on his YouTube channel, codedamn, having over 100,000 subscribers. He has been acknowledged by companies such as Google, Microsoft, Sony, etc. for his contributions as a security researcher.

Self-motivated, charismatic programmer, currently working as Technology Analyst for Verizon, USA, focusing on Front-end programming. Involved in migrating Verizons website pages from Angular to React Js.Holds degree in computer science from Mody University of Science and Technology, India.

A tech enthusiast and loves doing UI designing. Extensive experience in software development, front-end development in analysis, design, development and testing of web applications on OO JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, BootStrap, ReactJS, JSON, Redux, JQuery. Known for high commitment, flexibility to juggle across multiple roles. Experience in contributing to Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint demo, and Sprint retrospective sessions. Extensive experiences in UI Development, Web UI analysis, Responsive design, coding, unit testing, implementation and support working with various projects.

Implementation in Agile Software Development Team using SCRUM, TDD (Test Driven Development). Expertise in developing applications using Core Java concepts like OOPS. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated, thrives on collaboration with people as a team player. Prior to Verizon, I have worked for Orange France as a Java developer. Was involved in migrating billing system of Orange to Java from DML(a legacy code language). Being a diploma holder in French language, the added knowledge of French also helped a lot for that project and used to take French classes for my colleagues, which was fun too.

Have also worked as an intern in HCL and C-DOT. Like to contribute to open source jobs online. Like to do freelance projects in free time. Hobbies: exploring new places around the globe, meeting new people and reading about space.

There are a few people I want to thank for the continued and ongoing support they have given me during the writing of this book. First and foremost, I would like to thank my mom Mrs Ritu Mohan and my dad Mr Vinay Kumar Mohan, for always being there when I needed them no matter what.

I would also like to thank my sister Mrs Ishumita Mohan, who also happens to be the technical editor for the book, for her constant support throughout.

Finally, I would like to thank Nrip Jain at BPB Publications for giving me this opportunity to write my first book for them.

With web evolving so rapidly in the past 5-6 years, it is a no-brainer to build on top of existing best practices available in the market instead of going through scratch. React is one such tool to build highly responsive and scalable web applications, and comes with best practices from industry, used by front faces of the internet like Facebook. Hence, it becomes extremely important for developers to level up their web development skills to include React as a skill in their toolkit.

With the increasing need of businesses to optimize for user experience as well as search engine optimizations, technologies like Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) could enable companies to build better products whilst cutting down technical maintenance of existing codebase.

This book is a go-to handbook for developers who want to learn bleeding-edge React features, brush up their React skills, or start working with SSR/PWA using Next.js and React, which would eventually help them to scale their existing applications on the top of highly maintained and trusted open-source code. This book would take you through a journey of different discrete concepts youll need to know in order to build parts of application ready for SSR deployment or converting it into a PWA. Over the course of 9 chapters in the book, youll learn about the following.

Introduces React to you. Well dig up what React is and why it is a great choice for building highly scalable applications in todays world. Well also quickly brush up some necessary JS concepts required for future chapters.

Would cover setting up React using various methods and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each. Well also start writing basic applications with React and start seeing benefits React offers out of the box.

Would introduce 2 ways to create components in React and discuss a modern approach React takes for components functional way. Well also work with hooks in this chapter and see why they make more sense than their counterpart Classes.

Introduces state management with React. Here we discuss possible options to manage the state with React. Well see managing state with Redux, and using latest hooks useContext and useReducer to emulate Redux store.

Introduces server-side rendering in React, where well see what SSR is, and how it works. Well implement SSR in this chapter ourselves from scratch, and discuss the pros and cons with it.