Chris Minnick - Beginning Reactjs Foundations Building User Interfaces with Reactjs: An Approachable Guide

1. Chapter 4
2. Chapter 6
3. Chapter 7
4. Chapter 12

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1
3. Chapter 2
4. Chapter 3
5. Chapter 4
6. Chapter 5
7. Chapter 6
8. Chapter 7
9. Chapter 8
10. Chapter 9
11. Chapter 10
12. Chapter 11
13. Chapter 12
14. Chapter 13
15. Chapter 14
16. Chapter 15
17. Chapter 16
18. Chapter 17
19. Chapter 18
20. Chapter 20

Chris Minnick

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For Sam, who got such a kick out of being thanked in the last book. How about this?

Chris Minnick is a prolific author, blogger, trainer, speaker, and web developer. His company, WatzThis?, is dedicated to finding better ways to teach computer and programming skills to beginners.

Chris has been a full-stack developer for over 25 years and a trainer for over 10 years, and has taught web development, ReactJS, and advanced JavaScript at many of the world's largest companies as well as at public libraries, co-working spaces, and meetups.

Minnick has authored or co-authored over a dozen technical books for adults and kids, including Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 for Dummies, Coding with JavaScript for Dummies, JavaScript for Kids, Adventures in Coding, and Writing Computer Code.

Rick Carlino is a full-stack software developer from the greater Chicago area. He specializes in open source tools such as React. Rick has over a decade of experience both teaching and implementing modern web applications in React. During his time as a JavaScript instructor, he traveled the world to teach modern web application practices to countless students at large enterprises. He currently serves as the technical co-founder and lead software developer for FarmBot, an open source agricultural robotics platform (and React application!) that helps gardeners automate food production. Outside of work he volunteers his time as the co-founder of a makerspace that helps members of his community learn and access technology.

THIS BOOK WOULD NOT HAVE been possible without the help, support, experience, and wisdom provided by my friends, family, colleagues, and team. I'd especially like to thank the following people:

• Carole Jelen and Maureen Maloney at Waterside Productions.
• Project editor Kelly Talbot. It's a real pleasure to work with as keen-eyed and experienced a professional as you.
• Technical editor Rick Carlino. Rick, you're a super-hero. Your suggestions and corrections are always spot-on, and you've spared me from innumerable embarrassments and mea culpas.
• Acquisitions editor Devon Lewis.
• Associate Publisher Jim Minatel.
• The rest of the team at Wiley (Saravanan Dakshinamurthy, Kim Cofer, Louise Watson). It takes more people to publish a book than I even know, but I know that you're all fantastic.
• Jill McVarish, Paul Brady, Mike Machado, and Richard Hain for being readers and testers or for helping me figure it out, even if you didn't know that's what you were doing.
• My mentors and teachers who taught me how to write, including Roger Smith, Ken Byers, Conrad Vachon, and Steven Konopacki.
• Everyone who has taken one of my classes or read my books.
• The incredible React community, whose blog posts, tweets, articles, books, and videos have enlightened and inspired me.
• My co-authors and co-conspirators over the years, especially Eva Holland and Ed Tittel.
• Sam, who taught me how to make wine and rescued me when I was being electrocuted (accidentally, I think) by Zach.
• You, the reader, for placing your trust in me as you begin or continue your journey toward mastery of React.

CHRIS MINNICK