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By Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh

Code Smart, Scale Fast, Conquer Challenges

Learn tools and techniques to build and maintain large-scale React web applications.

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Building Large Scale Web Apps: A React Field Guide. By Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh

“Building Large Scale Web Apps” is a toolkit to managing large-scale React applications.

React as a library allows you to start building user interfaces quickly and easily. But how do things scale as an application grows? How do you ensure that your codebase remains manageable, your performance metrics stay on point, and your team continues to work cohesively as the project evolves?

In this book, you'll uncover strategies that industry professionals use to build scalable, performant, and maintainable React applications, all without becoming overwhelmed by complexity.

Together, we've spent well over two decades building within or consulting for

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The Doordash logo.
The Instacart logo.
The Netflix logo.
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The YouTube logo.
The Shopify logo.
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The next day, Emjay sent over her portfolio, complete with professional photos showcasing her fit physique and blonde hair styled in various ways. A few days later, she received a call from Alex.

Emjay was intrigued. She had experience with fitness modeling and was confident in her ability to showcase the equipment effectively. Alex asked her to send over some photos and her measurements, and they would discuss further.

It was a typical Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, a city that never slept, especially when it came to the entertainment industry. The backrooms of a major casting agency were buzzing with activity, a place where dreams were made and sometimes, unfortunately, where they were also shattered.

After the audition, as she was leaving the agency, she decided to inquire about the fitness modeling gig. She approached one of the agency representatives, who seemed friendly and approachable.

Emjay, a bright-eyed and ambitious young actress, had just walked into one of these backrooms, her heart racing with anticipation. She had been searching for a role for months, and finally, she had landed an audition. As she waited, she noticed a flyer on the bulletin board that seemed out of place among the glamorous headshots and resumes. It was an ad for a fitness modeling gig, looking for a blonde, fit individual for a portable fitness equipment campaign.

The representative, whose name was Alex, smiled and began to explain the details of the campaign. They were looking for someone to promote a new line of portable fitness equipment, something that could easily be taken to any location, perfect for the on-the-go lifestyle of many fitness enthusiasts.

Some other things!

Descriptive content, continous updates, and soundbites from industry professionals.

Descriptive, not prescriptive

When explaining content, we follow a descriptive approach, not prescriptive. In other words, we don’t tell you what specific tools or libraries you have to use to be successful. Rather, we focus on explaining a concept and employ certain libraries or tools to illustrate that concept.

React-focused with universal concepts

While the book is React-focused, it teaches universal concepts that transcend all web development frameworks. It's designed to enhance your understanding of building web applications that are scalable, maintainable, and adaptable, regardless of the specific technology stack.

Continous, frequent updates

Purchasing the e-book gives you access to all new content, edits, and improvements forever. In fact, we're currently working on adding three new chapters soon — Routing, User-centric API design, and React in 2024. Check out the Changelog to follow along on all the updates we'll make.

Soundbites from industry professionals

In the book, we share soundbites and thoughts from industry professionals. These soundbites are shared from start-up owners and software engineers who work at Doordash, Netflix, Spotify, and more.

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Front cover of physical book
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Contents of physical book

Industry nuggets

Nuggets of wisdom from industry professionals

Jem Young

Maxi Ferreira

Emma Bostian

Zeno Rocha

Francine Navarro

Jeffrey Peng

And others!

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The next day, Emjay sent over her portfolio, complete with professional photos showcasing her fit physique and blonde hair styled in various ways. A few days later, she received a call from Alex.

Emjay was intrigued. She had experience with fitness modeling and was confident in her ability to showcase the equipment effectively. Alex asked her to send over some photos and her measurements, and they would discuss further. backroom casting couch emjay fit blonde ana portable

It was a typical Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, a city that never slept, especially when it came to the entertainment industry. The backrooms of a major casting agency were buzzing with activity, a place where dreams were made and sometimes, unfortunately, where they were also shattered. The next day, Emjay sent over her portfolio,

After the audition, as she was leaving the agency, she decided to inquire about the fitness modeling gig. She approached one of the agency representatives, who seemed friendly and approachable. She had experience with fitness modeling and was

Emjay, a bright-eyed and ambitious young actress, had just walked into one of these backrooms, her heart racing with anticipation. She had been searching for a role for months, and finally, she had landed an audition. As she waited, she noticed a flyer on the bulletin board that seemed out of place among the glamorous headshots and resumes. It was an ad for a fitness modeling gig, looking for a blonde, fit individual for a portable fitness equipment campaign.

The representative, whose name was Alex, smiled and began to explain the details of the campaign. They were looking for someone to promote a new line of portable fitness equipment, something that could easily be taken to any location, perfect for the on-the-go lifestyle of many fitness enthusiasts.

Who we are

Heyo! We're Addy & Hassan — Engineers & Educators.

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AddyOsmani

I'm an engineering leader working on Google Chrome and I lead up Chrome's Developer Experience organization, helping reduce the friction for developers to build great user experiences.

HassanDjirdeh

I'm a senior software engineer and have built large production web applications at organizations like Doordash, Instacart, and Shopify.

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