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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.
The X logo.
The YouTube logo.
The Shopify logo.
The Ebay logo.

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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
Back cover of physical book
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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Tools like MKSMHook can be used to unlock NPCs or adjust the camera, though these often require specific emulator builds. Current Status of an Official Release

While series creator Ed Boon has expressed interest in a remake or remaster, has not officially greenlit any such project. The game remains unavailable on modern digital storefronts like Steam or GOG. Tools like MKSMHook can be used to unlock

To achieve the best experience on modern hardware, follow these general steps: To achieve the best experience on modern hardware,

The primary method to play on PC is using the PCSX2 emulator. You will need a legal copy of the game's ISO file and the appropriate PS2 BIOS files to run it. Tools like MKSMHook can be used to unlock

If using an HD pack, enable "Load Textures" in the texture replacement tab and point the directory to your downloaded texture folder.

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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“Building Large Scale Web Apps” is available in either an e-book or as a physical copy.

E-book

Great for digital learners.

$24.99USD

  • 300+ pages
  • PDF or EPub (or both)
  • All future updates
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Physical copy (softcover)

Perfect for hands-on referencers.

$49.99USD

  • 300+ pages
  • Softcover
  • Something to put on your bookshelf
  • Interested in both the e-book and physical copy? Purchase both separately!
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