We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to our family members and friends for their tireless support and belief. Our special thanks goes to Patrick Shaughnessy, Rohan Daxini and Kiprosh team, Abhishek Nalwaya, Akshat Paul, Naveen Rawat for taking out time to review the book. We also like to extend our gratitude to the ReactJS vibrant and ever enthusiastic online community, without which the vigorous task of writing such a book won't have been possible.

Thanks to the entire Packt publishing house especially Rahul Nair and team who helped in editing, proof reading and reviewing the book. As the famous saying goes "The journey is the reward", the very experience of writing this book is such a tremendous experience for us.

Danillo Corvalan is a software engineer who is passionate about software patterns and practices. He has a keen interest in the rapidly changing world of software development. He is quite insistent about the need of fast and reliable frameworks. He is originally from Brazil, now living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He loves biking a lot.

In Brazil, he worked on applications for the general public and lawyers, at the Court of Justice in his hometown city, Cuiabá/MT. Then, he moved to Florianópolis/SC, and worked at Bravi Software for developing hybrid and responsive web apps for education. Now, in Amsterdam, he is working at Vigour.io and helping to develop live multiscreen and responsive apps. From the web client-side perspective, in general, he has been in touch with technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone, and ReactJS.

For the past 5 years, Danillo has also worked with open source platforms and JavaScript on the server side (Node.js). He has played with React Native in order to develop native mobile applications with ReactJS.