In this book we'll discuss Webpack and React. Combined, these tools allow you to build all sorts of web applications swiftly. Knowledge of Webpack is useful beyond React. Understanding React will allow you to see alternatives in a different light.

Webpack solves the fundamental problem of web development, namely bundling. It takes in a variety of assets and provides you something you can serve to your client. Even though these sound simple it is in fact, a difficult problem. Webpack manages it through configuration. This makes it daunting to approach, but powerful to use. This book helps you to get through that initial learning curve.

Facebook's React is a component based view abstraction. It is not limited to web. In fact, you can build mobile applications using it. React forces you to think your application as components. It won't be enough, though. You will need to complement it with some other libraries on more complex cases. Compared to a framework based approach, this is refreshing.

The idea of the book is to guide you through a small example project.