I wrote a free book on React.js and just made it available on GitHub

TLDR; I just made my free React book available as a GH repo. You want to learn React and you're a beginner? Then this is a good place to start.

Hey friends..

As long as I can remember, I've always wanted to help people. I guess there's no surprise I now after 15 years in the biz is working in DevRel getting to do just that.

Free React book

• Available on my blog. So my free React book that you can read online is here

  https://softchris.github.io/books/react/

• Now on GitHub. But, I thought why not make it available on GitHub.

Some people might like to read it on GitHub. Or maybe read it offline, just fork it or git clone. Please help make it better and raise a PR if you see something.

https://github.com/softchris/react-book

So, whatever you do, I'd really appreciate if you spread the word and point people to GH, hope it helps you all.

 What does it contain

pretty much anything you need to know to be a React dev:

• Basics, components, input/output, conditional rendering etc.
• Redux, store, actions, reducers, sagas
• Routing, params, lazy loading etc.
• Testing, Jest
• Advanced concepts such as Context API, Hooks and more

Update

I'm supporting Docsify and would really welcome translations.

Comments

[Simon Holdorf]

Hey Chris, this is fantastic. It would be great to have it linked on DevBooks for more awareness :) thesmartcoder.dev/books/ You can submit it yourself :)

[jimronson2]

This is a wonderful idea and I'm glad you brought it to life. A lot of people missed something like this. I certainly couldn't write it myself. I remember in college I kept asking to write my book report, I used edubirdie.com/write-my-book-report for that. So it's not even worth talking about me. Always appreciated such people who do something for others. So help us.

[Maycol Uribe Romero]

Merci dude 😎

[jimronson2]

This is great, I've been looking for something like this for a long time.

[Albin Metthey]

Thanks a lot ! I was looking for a way to start React, just found it :)

[Estee Tey]

Thank you for offering this wonderful resource on Github! 😄 I look forward to refreshing my React skills with this textbook

[Nitin Ranganath]

Awesome to see that you've sagas and testing as well. Thanks for sharing.

[Kamran Ayub]

This is great, I just sent it to my dad who is learning React (and will probably master it, knowing him 😏)

[prof001]

Woooow. Thank you so much, I've been thinking of refreshing my React skills. I'm going to soooo devour it.

[Himanshu Tiwari 🌼]

Nice work

[Aayush sharma]

Nice

[Andrew Baisden]

Cool thanks for sharing.

[Shaiju T]

Nice 😄, I am planning to learn, should I start from official document or your book or any video course ?

[Chris Noring]

The official docs is really good. I recommend looking into the basis section of my book and learn the fundamentals. Have a look here too reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html Try to build small apps, best way to learn :)

[Tobi Akanji]

Documentation might be a good place to "Get started" IMO

[heberbr]

Thanks a lot !

[Michael Bierschneider]

Thank you very much for this react resource. 🥳🥳🥳