Chinnathambi - Learning React

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Kirupa Chinnathambi

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Learning React

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ISBN-13: 978-0-134-54631-5

ISBN-10: 0-134-54631-8

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016917161

Printed in the United States of America

First printing: November 2016

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To my dad!

(Who always believed in meeven if what I was often doing made no sense to him...or to me for that matter! :P)

First, none of this would be possible without the support and encouragement of my awesome wife, Meena. If she didnt put her goals on hold to allow me to spend six months designing, writing, and re-writing everything you see here, me writing this book would have been a distant dream.

Next, Id like to thank my parents for always encouraging me to aimlessly wander and enjoy free time to do what I likedsuch as teaching complete strangers over the internet in the late 1990s how to do cool things with programming. I wouldnt be half the rugged indoorsman/scholar/warrior I am today without them both :P

On the publishing side, writing the words you see here is the easy part. Getting the book into your hands is an amazingly complex process. The more I learn about all the moving pieces involved, the more impressed I am at all the individuals who work tirelessly behind the scenes to keep this amazing machinery running. To everyone at Pearson who made this possible, thank you! There are a few people Id like to explicitly call out, though. First, Id like to thank Mark Taber for continuing to give me opportunities to work together, Chris Zahn for patiently addressing my numerous questions/concerns, Abby Manheim for turning my version of English into something human-understandable, and Loretta Yates for helping make the connections a long time ago that made all of this happen. The technical content of this book has been reviewed in great detail by my long-time friends and online collaborators, Kyle Murray (aka Krilnon) and Trevor McCauley (aka senocular). I cant thank them enough for their thorough (and frequently, humorous!) feedback.

Kirupa Chinnathambi has spent most of his life trying to teach others to love web development as much as he does.

In 1999, before blogging was even a word, he started posting tutorials on kirupa.com . In the years since then, he has written hundreds of articles, written a few books (none as good as this one, of course!), and recorded a bunch of videos you can find on YouTube. When he isnt writing or talking about web development, he spends his waking hours helping make the Web more awesome as a Program Manager in Microsoft. In his non-waking hours, he is probably sleeping...or writing about himself in the third person.