About the Author

Chris Minnick has been a full stack developer for over 26 years, and a professional author and trainer for 15 years. He has been the lead front-end React developer for several startup companies, and has been building web and mobile user interfaces with React since 2015. Chris has produced online video courses for Pluralsight and O'Reilly Media and is the author of over a dozen books including ReactJS Foundations: Building User Interfaces with React JS.

Other Books by Chris Minnick

Download the examples, report issues, and ask/answer questions in the discussion area by visiting the book's github page. All of the code for the book is also available on codesandbox.io for you to play around with.

ReactJS Foundations is published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc and is available in paperback and eBook.

Latest Blog Posts

React Router v6 Code Posted

Chapter 12 covers how to do Routing in React using React Router v5. In the time since the book came out, React Router v6 has been released, which includes some changes to how it’s used. I’m also working on writing a version of Chapter 12 that covers React Router 6. I’ll post that to the […]

Errata: Chapter 6

The final code example in the Shallow Copies and the Spread Operator section on page 160 shows a rest parameter with only two periods. There should be three. The correct code is:

React 18 Update

The biggest change in React 18 is the addition of concurrent rendering. With concurrent rendering, you can mark state updates as non-urgent in order to improve the performance of your user interface. Concurrent rendering is opt-in. What this means is that it’s only enabled when you use a concurrent feature. As a result, apps built […]