Building Large Scale Web Apps: A React field guide

Addy Osmani · Hassan Djirdeh

Apr 2024 · Patterns.dev

About this ebook

"Building Large Scale Web Apps" is a toolkit for 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.

Ratings and reviews

There's a big difference in the concerns you have to think about when building a scrappy initial React app and building something that needs to scale up to millions of users. I found this book matched a lot of the topics we've run into when scaling apps and captured a lot of great tips and tricks we'll be sure to use in the future. A recommended read.

I've been building React apps for a number of years and have always found much of the guidance focused on 101 with only a little 201. This book covers the 201 and 301 of building large-scale apps really well. It answers questions that I've run into a number of times building non-trivial apps and would recommend it to others.

Love how thorough this book is! Really covers the entire spectrum of challenges you're likely to run into when building a real world production web application with anywhere from thousands to millions of users. Solid stuff!

About the author

Addy Osmani is an engineering leader working on Google Chrome and he lead ups Chrome's Developer Experience organization, helping reduce the friction for developers to build great user experiences.

Hassan Djirdeh is a senior software engineer and has built large production web applications at organizations like Doordash, Instacart, and Shopify.