14. Next Steps and Further Resources

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will know the following:

– How to best practice what you've learned throughout this book

– Which React topics you can explore next

– Which popular third-party React packages might be worth a closer look

Introduction

With this book, you've gotten a thorough (re-)introduction to the key React concepts you must know in order to work with React successfully, providing both theoretical and practical guidance for components, props, state, context, React Hooks, routing, and many other crucial concepts.

But React is more than just a collection of concepts and ideas. It powers an entire ecosystem of third-party libraries that help with many common React-specific problems. There is also a huge React community that shares solutions for common problems or popular patterns.

In this last, brief chapter, you'll learn about some of the most important and popular third-party libraries you might want to explore. You will also be introduced to other great resources that help with learning React. In addition, this chapter will share some recommendations on how best to proceed and continue to grow as a React developer after finishing this book.

How Should You Proceed?

In working through this book, you've learned a lot about React. But it's always challenging to then proceed and apply that knowledge to real projects.

So, how should you proceed? How do you best apply your knowledge and, hence, continue to grow as a React developer?

The most important factor is that you use your knowledge. Don't just read a book. Instead, use your newly gained skills to build some demo projects.

You don't have to build the next Amazon or TikTok. There's a reason why applications like these are built by huge teams. But you should build small demo projects that focus on a couple of core problems. You could, for example, build a very basic website that allows users to store and view their daily goals, or build a basic meetups page where visitors can organize and join meetup events.

To put it simply: practice is king. You must apply what you've learned and build stuff. Because by building demo projects,...

Final Words

With all the concepts discussed throughout this book, as well as the extra resources and starting points to dive deeper, you are well prepared to build feature-rich and highly user-friendly web applications with React.

No matter if it's a simple blog or a complex Software-as-a-Service solution, you now know the key React concepts you need in order to build a React-driven web app your users will love.

I hope you got a lot out of this book. Definitely share any feedback you have, for example, via Twitter (@maxedapps) or by sending an email to [e-mail].