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Over the last month (or so), I've been reading and reviewing React books on my blog [1]. I liked Fullstack React, but there is one big thing that keeps me from recommending it: most of the examples still use the createClass from ES5. For learning React in 2017, I (just my opinion) expect the book to fully embrace ES6/7 in all the examples.

[1]: https://medium.com/@jmcunningham/

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Yes, we're fixing that as we speak. It will be up to date shortly.

I am considering buying this for an engineer that works for me to get up to speed on React in the very near future. I only want to start him on ES6+ syntax though. How long do you think until it will be up-to-date?

The first chapter has already been updated to use ES6 class syntax, and we explain how it works there. We're converting the rest of the book to use ES6 classes (and removing createClass) over the next week or two.

You should remove your header of "up-to-date" on your marketing page until you get that fix in place.

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