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24 alternatives to I wrote a good React book / website

Pre-covid, I was traveling full time to teach ReactJS to corporate clients. My students (mostly developers at banks and insurance companies) would ask me 'What's a good React book?' and I would struggle to recommend something, knowing that all the books sucked or were really out of date. When all my face-to-face training work dried up and I really didn't want to do online training, I magically got a contract to write a book. I started by reading all of the best-selling books on React, and, yeah, they were all really out of date, incomplete, or just wrong. As I started writing what I hoped…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I wrote a good React book / website launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    The new home for React and its documentation

    2023 · react.dev · its alternatives →

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    Everything you need to know about React in one place

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Hands-on introduction to making a web app using React.

    2016 · hackingwithreact.com · its alternatives →

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    A guide to using React for designers

    2019 · react.dev · its alternatives →

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    Common design patterns used while developing with React.

    2018 · krasimir.gitbooks.io · its alternatives →

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    A fun way to learn a bad thing. Contribute to cloudstreet-dev/React-is-Awful development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Course for building a React site using components

    2018 · designcode.io · its alternatives →

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    A book about React project architecture and component design

    2021 · taoofreact.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I made a React compatibility library for a Virtual DOM library (https://github.com/aidenybai/million). The idea is to have much faster rendering (a compiler optimizes virtual DOM beforehand) while ensuring the same developer experience React provides. This is very, VERY early stage, so be prepared for weird bugs / plugin incompatibility / etc. If you have any suggestions, I'd be more than happy if you replied in a comment with it! You can spin up the demo here >> https://stackblitz.com/github/aidenybai/million-react-compat

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    A free course that teaches you the fundamentals of React.js.

    2016 · fireship.dev · its alternatives →

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    2016 · fullstackreact.com · its alternatives →

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    A free, 24-page zine about making web apps with React.js

    2018 · blog.glitch.com · its alternatives →

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    A journey to learn Redux and MobX in React.js

    2017 · roadtoreact.com · its alternatives →

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    Looking at websites such as Clerk, I began thinking that design engineers might be some kind of wizards. I wanted to understand how they do it, so I started reverse-engineering their components out of curiosity. One thing led to another, and I ended up building a small library of reusable, animated components based on what I found. The library is built in React and Framer Motion. I’d love to hear your feedback

    2025 · reverseui.com · its alternatives →

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    A handbook to help you navigate the intricate world of React

    2020 · opinionatedreact.com · its alternatives →

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    Want to upgrade your JavaScript skills and learn React.js? Learn how to build websites and web apps in just a couple of afternoons.

    2015 · reactforbeginners.com · its alternatives →

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    The Complete Book on ReactJS and Friends

    2016 · fullstackreact.com · its alternatives →

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    Deep dives, investigations, performance patterns and tricks

    2023 · advanced-react.com · its alternatives →

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    Beat the React learning curve in under an hour

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your ultimate guide to real-world React.js 19 interviews.

    2025 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover trending and popular React libraries and projects

    2023 · reactlibraries.com · its alternatives →

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    We discuss how each of us came to React.

    2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Free eBook on cross platform mobile app development

    2016 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →

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