Book excerpt: Developed by Facebook, React is one of the leading frameworks to build efficient web user interfaces. You use small manageable components to build large-sale, data-driven websites without page reloads. No more wasting time hunting for DOM nodes! In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to master React from a web development point of view. You'll start building React apps within minutes. Every section is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don't want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have what it takes to develop a real-life app. About the Reader This book is for developers with basic familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript and object-oriented programming. No React experience needed. About the Author Greg Lim is a technologist and author of several programming books. Greg has many years in teaching programming in tertiary institutions and he places special emphasis on learning by doing. Table of Contents Introduction Creating and Using Components Bindings, Props, State and Events Working with Components Conditional Rendering Building Controlled Forms Getting Data From RESTful APIs with Axios React Routing C.R.U.D. with Firebase Introduction to Redux React with Redux Introduction to React Hooks