Fullstack React: The Complete Guide to ReactJS and Friends Paperback – 12 Sept. 2017

I have to work with React at a new job (without any prior experience at Frontend) and since Frontend world is changing at a very fast pace, I decided to buy this book as the latest one available at the market. I didn't expect anything good from it initially (not well-known authors, totally insane cover picture), but when I started reading this book, I was amazed. First of all, the quality of writing is at the level of the top books like "Clean Code". Second, although it is written as a tutorial, this books not only shows you how to do things, but also explains why exactly you're doing it that way and what happens behind the scenes in React. This is definitely one of the best technical books I've read in the last couple of years.

I managed to update the packages for the most part up into the point of the chapter beginning:"Advanced Component Configuration" on page 181.The book, in and of itself is very heavy. The quality of the paper is good. No pages sticking together for me as mentioned by other reviewers. The publishers were very helpful in that capacity in providing me a PDF too.They do have a Discord channel - but that social media app is a disaster. Because I subscribe to other channels I can't ever login to access it. Keeps on saying invalid password/claim account. Ridiculous app.The section starting at 181, relies heavily on styleguidist. I found it impossible to upgrade because of conflicting versions of react and react-dom in the sub-packages - specifically react-simple-code-editior.I don't like it that the book's authors doesn't help the author of that project update his project to the latest react 17.0.1.I did enjoy the first 180 pages, but each time spent more timing upgrading/fixing downloads to make things work. I fed this back to the folks at newline, so perhaps at least those parts will get updated.

Nice book but not at expert level

Very unorganised, difficult to understand. It's a real slog to get through this book. All the code examples are a bit of a mess. Lots of complex terminology, certainly not worth the ridiculous price.