Book 1
Fundamentals
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Introducing
The Framework Field Guide
A practical way to learn Angular, React & Vue all at once
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Book 2
Ecosystem
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Book 3
Internals
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Learn why we made it freeFundamentals
Learn how to build apps using these frameworks
React, Angular, and Vue have exploded in popularity within the past few
years, but to use these frameworks, you need to understand a collection
of core concepts and framework-specific syntax.
This book
introduces these core concepts and prepares you to write original code
using these frameworks.
This book has:
95K words
16 chapters
- What is a component?
- Component relationships
- Lifecycle methods
- Dynamic HTML
- Attribute binding
- Rendering
- Un-rendering
- Prop listening
- Derived values
- Element reference
- Component reference
- Dependency injection
- Custom hooks
- Error handling
- Accessibility (A11Y)
- Forms and data binding
- DOM updating
- React
- Angular
- Vue
- Live updating values
- Inputs
- Outputs
- Event bindings
- Directives
- Portals
- Side effects
- Event bubbling
- Pipes
- Custom hooks
Ecosystem
Learn the tools surrounding these frameworks
While React, Angular, and Vue all provide a strong set of core features, that's only part of their story. The third-party ecosystem of these frameworks offers a myriad of highly useful and broadly adopted tools. These tools allow you to level-up your apps — making them more performant, stable, and easier to maintain.
Coming soon — in production now!
This book has:
12 * chapters
- Static site generation
- Server-side rendering
- Build tooling
- CSS-in-JS
- CSS Modules
- Routing
- Observables
- HTTP Networking
- GraphQL
- Internationalization (i18n)
- Testing
- Visual playground
- Global storage
- Developer Tools
- Integration testing
- End-to-End testing
- Vite
- RxJS
- NextJS
- Redux
- Pinia
- MSW
- Testing Library
- Webpack
- Angular CLI
- Create React App (CRA)
- Styled Components
- Flamegraphs
- Bundling
- Compilers
*This book’s contents are subject to change
Internals
Learn how these frameworks work under-the-hood
To get the absolute most out of your tools, you should understand them inside and out; React, Angular, and Vue are no exception. In this book, we'll write our own version of each framework... from scratch. After all, what better way to understand the internals than to write them yourself?
Stay tuned — coming late 2025!
This book has:
12 * chapters
- Performance
- OnPush
- Memoization
- v-once
- Rendering Behavior
- Virtual DOM
- Incremental DOM
- "h" function
- Reactivity
- Zone.js internals
- Proxies
- Vue RFC sugar
- Vue JSX usage
- DOM diffing
- "createElement"
- Hook state persistence
- Hook call order
- Change detection
- ApplicationRef.tick
- Angular Ivy
- NgZone
- Custom renderers
- Template compilers
- Immutability
- Write your own framework
- Vue's internals
- React's internals
- Angular's internals
- nextTick
- Non-DOM usage
*This book’s contents are subject to change
Why should I learn React + Angular + Vue?
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Deeper understanding of core concepts
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Insight into different programming methodologies
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Appreciation for the "why" behind framework tradeoffs
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Learn similar frameworks much faster
What can I get out of The Framework Field Guide?
The Framework Field Guide provides step-by-step learning for three different frameworks, starting from the fundamentals. It's a great resource for those new to web development who want to learn without being pigeon-holed into one piece of tech.
Don't want to learn all three? No problem!
You can easily select a single framework and use this series to learn it front-and-back.
- React
- Angular
- Vue
const Hello = () => { return <p>Hello, world!</p>}@Component({ selector: "my-app", template: `<p>Hello, world!</p>`, standalone: true})class HelloWorldComp {}<!-- Hello.vue --><template> <p>Hello, world!</p></template><script setup></script>Your guide for the trip
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Blog posts - 1,300
Hours streamed - 19K
GitHub contributions - 250K
Blog reads - 19M
Monthly NPM installs - ∞
Silly jokes made
With more than 8 years of web development experience and after getting to know
these frameworks from the inside out, the 'Framework Field Guide' consists of
knowledge I wish I had access to when I first started out.
The series will take you through all the necessary stages, no matter your level
of proficiency. My goal is to provide access to learning tools and support for
everyone, so they can go and build their vision.
Sponsorship
If you like the books and want to support me, this is an easy way to do so. Thank you so much for helping.
Sponsor me“Why is Framework Field Guide free?”
Being in the software field has been absolutely transformative to my life. It's allowed me to help family and friends through tough times. That’s why I want to help others break into the field as I have been fortunate enough to and have a similar impact to their lives as well.
When I reflect on my life, it's incredible to think about how fortunate I've
been to make it into tech. While I'm financially very stable today, my family
was never super well off growing up. We stayed with family when we weren't
living in low income communities, were often in debt, and relied on our food
stamps. So how did I get here?
Early on, it was clear that education was never going to be my forte. Due
to several psychiatric episodes and other stressors, I dropped out of high
school, after being diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder (schizophrenia
and bipolar disorder combined).
I worked a series of minimum-wage tech jobs until a storm of events, including
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I went from being behind on rent by three months to becoming debt-free and
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Hear from other adventurers
Whether you want to go from zero to hero in the marvelous world of frontend JavaScript frameworks or are a veteran looking to learn another framework while comparing it to a framework you know, this epic book series is for you. Me? I'm learning Vue. Corbin has made good choices to ensure that your learning experience is well thought out. These books use modern and simple frameworks APIs, and each concept or technique is introduced step-by-step to avoid overwhelming you.
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The adventure continues...
There are so many more things this series comes with that we didn't have space to talk about. Here are just a few:
- Explanatory charts, diagrams, and images for visual learners.
- Tons of companion blog posts to continue learning from.
- An optional free download of the book's contents via PDF or ePub.
- An inclusive Discord community with regular office hours!
- Code challenges at the end of each chapter to practice with.
- Practical application of concepts; build an app incrementally throughout.
- Fully understand why re-renders occur.
- Write your own framework from scratch.
- Accessibility in code samples & more.
- Discover the differences in framework philosophy.
- Step by step learning structure. Code is introduced in order and builds on itself.
- Build with tools that are used by massive companies to scale their apps.
- Few knowledge pre-requisites. Start with a basic understanding of HTML & JS.
- In-depth explanations of core JavaScript features like "Side Effects".
- No advanced TypeScript to worry about; just focus on the framework's code.
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