2019-04-10: Book Report

Hello folks, I am continuing to read Learning Web Development with React and Bootstrap.

Chapter 6

This chapter shortly covers Redux a state management library that you can use for any JavaScript application. I think Redux should had been covered in more than just a single chapter; at least several chapters on how to handle Redux, and at the most an entire book with some brief history of Flux the design pattern. With that said; for those reading this book, and had read this chapter should implore in reading more about Flux, Redux, or watch some tutorial videos about either of the two subjects.

At the very least, I do find Redux more simple to understand than Vue’s Vuex state management.

Chapter 7

I did find it out that the next chapter deals with routing in React using react-router instead of going before a more complicated subject such as Flux and Redux. Basically, it just works like much like any other router from other JavaScript libraries. You will have a routing container where it will switch the components depending on the URL of the page. Then you have HTML markup tags specifically made to handle linking to the router.

Chapter 8

In this chapter; you start learning how to implement Node.js and Express to handle REST API handling; especially with Facebook API. This chapter kind of lost me when I read this, yet I have a good understanding how to work with REST API, but I felt this chapter felt a little rushed.

Chapter 9

Working with Node.js can allow the developer to bring their React project, and be served on the server-side. Again, this is another chapter I felt was a little rushed, and a little disorienting especially when the author revisit the application we worked on go through it again for some reason. I think he was trying to make sure it would work on the server-side, but it just felt muddled and pointless.

Overview

Chapter ten does go into a review of the entire book, and best practices, but I felt the book was enjoyable to read till the end where I felt some of the chapters could of been more clarifying, or maybe a separate, smaller book like Redux. When it comes to state management; I still feel there needs to be clarification on what should be saved on state, and data that a component should just handle. The author briefly brought up best practices with using Redux state, but not enough to get the whole idea.

Otherwise, I would recommend trying this book if you are familiar with React, and a little bit with Bootstrap.

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