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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

About the Reviewers

Ilan is currently an undergraduate studying computer science in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. His interests in computer science stemmed from his early work in biophysics where he proposed a schematic that could potentially be used to synthetically create a proton transport Complex I and a virtual representation of the mitochondrion that can now function as the framework to synthesize a real biological system. Throughout his high school education and early years of college, he built various computational models and full-stack applications that showcased his expertise across a wide range of technologies from Mathematica to Ruby on Rails. In his first year of college, he cofounded and led the engineering team for four start-ups that have primarily disrupted their respective industries—MusicTech: Tunetap, MedTech: saund, FinTech: TheSimpleGroup, and FoodTech: Macrofuel. To this day, he contributes to these ventures as a project manager and continues to lead the backend engineering initiative for two Cornell engineering project teams. In addition to his academics and entrepreneurial endeavors, he works as a part-time software engineer for the R&D division at Bloomberg L.P., where he spent two summers researching and optimizing their distributed systems platform for large-scale data analytics.