Book 1
Fundamentals
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The Framework Field Guide
A free and 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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Fundamentals
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
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.
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Blog posts - 1,300
Hours streamed - 19K
GitHub contributions - 250K
Blog reads - 19M
Monthly NPM installs - ∞
Silly jokes made
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.
GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP, Angular Hero of Education
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.
Pricing
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Fundamentals
Learn the core concepts behind your favorite frameworks and develop skillsets to build your first apps.
Free
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Introduction to Components - Lifecycle methods
- Forms
- Dependency injection
- Shared component logic
- Portals
- Accessibility
- Code structure
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18 jampacked chapters - Lifetime access to content
- Discord community access
- Office hours and Q&A session
- Money-back guarantee
- Bonus: Offline download
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Ecosystem
Build out production-ready applications with all of the bells and whistles your users expect.
Gratis
- Build tooling
- Developer tooling
- Component styling
- Page routing
- Testing methodologies
- Server-side rendering
- Static site generation
- Global data store
- 12 comprehensive chapters
- Lifetime access to content
- Discord community access
- Office hours and Q&A session
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Internals
Take a deeper dive into understanding how your apps work under-the-hood, including rewriting internals from scratch.
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- Performance optimizations
- Virtual DOM
- Incremental DOM
- Custom renderers
- Explicit reactivity
- Zone.js
- JavaScript proxies
- JSX internals
- 12 comprehensive chapters
- Lifetime access to content
- Discord community access
- Office hours and Q&A session
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