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Getting Started with React

By : Doel Sengupta, Manu Singhal, Danillo Corvalan
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Getting Started with React

By: Doel Sengupta, Manu Singhal, Danillo Corvalan

Overview of this book

ReactJS, popularly known as the V (view) of the MVC architecture, was developed by the Facebook and Instagram developers. It follows a unidirectional data flow, virtual DOM, and DOM difference that are generously leveraged in order to increase the performance of the UI. Getting Started with React will help you implement the Reactive paradigm to build stateless and asynchronous apps with React. We will begin with an overview of ReactJS and its evolution over the years, followed by building a simple React component. We will then build the same react component with JSX syntax to demystify its usage. You will see how to configure the Facebook Graph API, get your likes list, and render it using React. Following this, we will break the UI into components and you’ll learn how to establish communication between them and respond to users input/events in order to have the UI reflect their state. You’ll also get to grips with the ES6 syntaxes. Moving ahead, we will delve into the FLUX and its architecture, which is used to build client-side web applications and complements React’s composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. Towards the end, you’ll find out how to make your components reusable, and test and deploy them into a production environment. Finally, we’ll briefly touch on other topics such as React on the server side, Redux and some advanced concepts.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting Started with React
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Preparing Your Code for Deployment

Going through the ReactJS fundamentals and flux, we have almost approached the end of this book. After developing any application, we are left with the most crucial part of making the application available to the outside world, thus deploying your application. It's a good practice to keep the code in a source control repository such as GitHub or Bitbucket and to version control the code using Git. These help while working in a group and retrieval of any code as and when necessary. The explanation of how to set up the earlier-mentioned things is beyond the scope of this book, but there are a plenty of resources available for the same.

In this chapter, we will be exploring the following topics:

  • An introduction to Webpack

  • The ways of deploying a React application using Webpack and Gulp

  • The configuration options used for browserify

  • Installing a simple web server