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React.js Essentials

By : Artemij Fedosejev
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React.js Essentials

React.js Essentials

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By: Artemij Fedosejev

Overview of this book

Building web applications with maintainable and performant user interfaces is a challenge that many have faced for more than a decade, but no one has risen to this challenge quite like React.js. Today React.js is used by Facebook, Instagram, Khan Academy, and Imperial College London, to name a few. Many new users recognize the benefits of React.js and adopt it in their own projects, forming a fast-growing community. The speed at which React.js has evolved promises a bright future for those who invest in learning it today. React.js Essentials will take you on a fast-paced journey through building your own maintainable React.js application. Begin by exploring how you can create single and multiple user interface elements. Create stateless and stateful components and make them reactive, learn to interact between your components and lifecycle methods and gauge how to effectively integrate your user interface components with other JavaScript libraries. Delve deep into the core elements of the Flux architecture and learn how to manage your application using stores. Finish by going that extra mile with the Jest test framework, running multiple tests on your application and find solutions to scale it further without complexity.
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Getting data from the Twitter Streaming API

The data for our React application will come from Twitter. Twitter has the Streaming API that anyone can plug into and start receiving an endless flow of public tweets in the JSON format.

To start using the Twitter Streaming API, you'll need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create a Twitter account. For this, go to https://twitter.com and sign up; or sign in if you already have an account.
  2. Create a new Twitter App by navigating to https://apps.twitter.com, and click on Create New App. You will need to fill in the Application Details form, agree with the Developer Agreement, and click on Create your Twitter application. Now you should see your application's page. Switch to the Keys and Access Tokens tab.

In the Application Settings section of this page, you'll find two vital pieces of information:

  • Consumer Key (API Key); for example, jqRDrAlKQCbCbu2o4iclpnvem
  • Consumer Secret (API Secret); for example, wJcdogJih7uLpjzcs2JtAvdSyCVlqHIRUWI70aHOAf7E3wWIgD

Take a note of them; we will need them later in this chapter.

Now we need to generate an access token. On the same page, you'll see Your Access Token section that is empty. Click on Create my access token. It creates two pieces of information:

  • Access Token; for example, 12736172-R017ah2pE2OCtmi46IAE2n0z3u2DV6IqsEcPa0THR
  • Access Token Secret; for example, 4RTJJWIezIDcs5VX1PMVZolXGZG7L3Ez7Iz1gMdZucDaM

Take a note of them too. An access token is unique to you and you should not share it with anyone. Keep it private.

Now we have everything that we need to start using Twitter's Streaming API.

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