Foreword

I keep hoping that JavaScript will die. Seriously. Die brutally and painfully.

It’s not that I completely dislike JavaScript—it has improved quite a bit over the years. It’s that I have a severe distaste for complexity—so much so that I named my blog and my business Simple Programmer. My tagline has always been, “Making the complex simple.”

Making the complex simple isn’t easy. It takes a special set of skills. You have to be able to understand the complex, and understand it so well that you can distill it down to the core—because everything is simple at the core. This is exactly what Azat has done with this book, React Quickly.

Now, I’ll admit Azat had a little help. You see, one of the reasons I personally like ReactJS so much is that it’s simple. It was designed to be simple. It was designed to deal with the increasing complexity of JavaScript frameworks and reduce that complexity by going back to the basics: plain old JavaScript. (At least, for the most part. ReactJS does have a JSX language that’s compiled into JavaScript, but I’ll let Azat tell you about that.)