Repository for The Complete React Interview Guide book

Written by Sudheer Jonna and Andrew Baisden. Powered by Pack publishing, UK.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1, Brace yourself for interview preparation

  • Prepare your resume and cover letter
  • Build your Github profile or website portfolio
  • Where to find jobs and LinkedIn
  • Meetups and referrals
  • Interview tips

• Chapter 2, Understanding ReactJS fundamentals and its major features

  • Prerequisites to ReactJS
  • Introduce ReactJS and JSX
  • Building views with elements and components
  • Controlling the component data using props and state
  • Knowing the importance of key prop
  • Learning event handling
  • Understanding Virtual DOM
  • Difference between Unidirectional data flow and bidirectional data flow
  • Accessing DOM elements in React
  • Describing how to manage state globally using Context API
  • Understanding Server-side rendering technique

• Chapter 3, Hooks: Bring state, lifecycle and other features in functional components

  • Introduction to Hooks and their purpose
  • Local state management using hooks
  • Global state management using hooks
  • Performing side-effects in application
  • Accessing DOM nodes using Ref hooks
  • Optimizing the application performance
  • Learning about popular third-party hooks
  • Building your own hooks
  • Troubleshooting and debugging hooks

• Chapter 4, Handling routing and internationalisation

  • Navigating screens and introduction to React Router
  • Routes, types of routes, route and Link
  • Adding routes
  • Access URL parameters
  • Nesting routes
  • Introduce Internationalisation and localization
  • Adding translations and formatted messages
  • Passing arguments and placeholders

• Chapter 5, Advanced concepts of ReactJS

  • Exploring portals
  • Understanding error boundaries  
  • Managing asynchronous actions with suspense API
  • Optimizing rendering performance using concurrent rendering
  • Debugging React applications with Profiler API
  • Strict mode
  • Static type checking
  • React in mobile environment and its features

• Chapter 6, Redux: The best state management solution

  • Understanding Flux pattern and Redux
  • Core principles of Redux, components and APIs
  • Redux middleware: Saga and Thunk
  • Debugging applications using Redux DevTools

• Chapter 7, Different approaches to apply CSS in ReactJS

  • Different solutions to apply CSS
  • Processors and CSS Modules
  • CSS-IN-JS approach and Styled components and it’s usage
  • How to use styled components in React application

• Chapter 8, Testing and debugging the React Application

  • Introduction of React testing helpers
  • Setup/teardown
  • Data fetching and mocking data
  • Events and timers
  • React DevTools for debugging and analysis

• Chapter 9, Rapid development with Next.js, Gatsby and Remix frameworks

  • React supercharged with full-stack frameworks
  • Static site generation
  • Server Side rendering
  • Adding page metadata

• Chapter 10, Cracking any real-world programming task

  • Prepare your development environment
  • Choose right scaffolding tools or templates
  • Deciding the application architecture
  • Test your code
  • Create your git repository with REAMDE and share it

• Chapter 11, Ex #1: Build an App based on React Hooks/Redux, styled components and Firebase backend

  • Quick introduction to React concepts, Styled components and Firebase
  • Planning the application architecture
  • Build the business logic
  • Build the presentation layer

• Chapter 12, Ex #2: Build an App based on NextJS toolkit, authentication, SWR, GraphQL and deployment

  • Quick introduction to REST APIs
  • Planning the application architecture including authentication, SWR, GraphQL, and deployment
  • Build the business logic
  • Build the presentation layer
  • Implement testing
  • Deploy the application to access it for public
  • Create git repository with README documentation
  • Quiz: Test your coding skills