JavaScript Everywhere: Building Cross-Platform Applications with Graphql, React, React Native, and Electron

This was a great book until the Node modules it uses were deprecated. The git hub repo has not been updated and makes the book ultimately useless for a beginner.

Es un libro escrito de manera muy cotidiana, todo lo introduce y lo acerca desde una perspectiva muy natural, por ejemplo para hablar de Mongo habla de sus colecciones de niño y de ahí parte para introducirte a Mongo.Por otro lado la aplicación que se hace no es muy complicada pero tiene todo lo necesario para hacer un, por ejemplo, CRM o bien ponerle más características a la aplicación de notas.Es un libro introductorio, sí, pero creo que se disfruta más sabiendo un poco de MERN stack porque recorre un camino muy similar al que se haría con express para una api.

The book content is good but the quality of images on the book in awful.

UPDATE (9/16/20) — The publisher reached out to me about fixing this issue, and I can confirm the new printings of the book do not have the issue the rest of this review mentions with regards to the readability.So, I'm updating my review to 5 stars. Out of the many programming books I've used, this is one of the best. It's really what I needed in terms of breadth—a guide to building JavaScript apps for every platform.I also recommend readers refer to the GitHub for this book to easily access the code and updates for it.The customer service I received from the publisher was wonderful and really proved O'Reilly cares about their books, authors, and customers.---------------------PREVIOUS REVIEW: I highly recommend you do not purchase this book until the publisher fixes the issues with the unreadable figures. There are several examples like the picture I listed in this review throughout the book where it's difficult to even read what the screenshot says (and ironically, it's more legible through my camera...!)I contacted Amazon and explained the issue and said how I'm sure the publisher just isn't aware of the problem, and the customer support person said he notified the publisher and assured me the replacement he was going to send wouldn't have the issue... and I also had to return the copy I owned (annoying—I don't want to have to package the thing up, drive to the UPS store, drop it off, etc)Well, after all that, the next copy I got was EXACTLY the same with the same issues.Super super frustrating, and I cannot recommend this book until the issue is fixed (especially for the price of these things). I'm writing this review to warn buyers and to hopefully notify the publisher / author that the contrast on "figures" in the book / the print quality of those figures is off and needs to be fixed.So far though, I've found the book's content overall to be pretty good and, honestly, exactly what I need—a guide for someone who already knows how to code / knows decent amounts of the technologies used in the book, but has trouble putting it all together.

What I like about this book is that it is detailed and thoughtful. Often in blog posts you see this common phrase: "simply do X." In this book you get a lot of context like: "X is a tool to help us do Y, here's how you install it." When covering as much ground as this book does this context is enourmously helpful.