Your First React App

Put your headphones on, open up your text editor, and zoom through your first React app in a weekend.


Follow along with this 99-page guide that takes you all the way from to .

Short enough to read in a weekend, long enough to teach you everything you need for your first app.

“Your First React App” has 9 CHAPTERS:

• I. INTRODUCTION — What to learn, and how
• II. PLANNING — What to build, with what steps, in what order
• III. PROJECT SETUP — Boilerplate, directory structure
• IV. STATIC LAYOUT — Basic component layout
• V. DYNAMIC LAYOUT — Props, propTypes, loops, and events
• VI. STATE & LOGIC — Algorithms and component state
• VII. STYLE — CSS for each component
• VIII. DEPLOYMENT — Launch your app
• IX. NEXT STEPS — Where to go from here