Learning Web Development with React and Bootstrap

By Harmeet Singh and Mehul Bhatt

I did not read much from last week to today, but I am liking this book quite a bit as I do find it easy to understand though I do have some knowledge of React prior to start reading this. Regardless, this is one of the better Packt books, close to the Vue book from last week.

This book is going to teach someone how to use the React library and the Bootstrap plugin to develop an employee system, and I do like the idea of an evolving project from chapter to chapter. The author(s) started out with introducing the reader React as the library to build components with Bootstrap to handle the markup and styling of the web app.

One section of the book, as they talk about JSX (the fusion of HTML inside JavaScript), and brought up namespacing. “Wait, I can organize my components even further than just making a whole skew of require lines?!?” Let us just say I was overly excited with the idea, and I like to organize my modules and components as much as possible for a clean directory.

Otherwise, I did not read much of this book; only a couple chapters, and two were introductory with one about React, and the other Bootstrap. Third chapter was a little insightful besides the namespace feature. I did not realize I was able to put child elements inside custom components. Of course, I would figured there had to been a while since react-bootstrap made custom components based on Bootstrap’s components: this.props.children.

Have a good day!