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React Cookbook

By : Carlos Santana Roldán
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React Cookbook

By: Carlos Santana Roldán

Overview of this book

React.js is Facebook's dynamic frontend web development framework. It helps you build efficient, high-performing web applications with an intuitive user interface. With more than 66 practical and self-contained tutorials, this book examines common pain points and best practices for building web applications with React. Each recipe addresses a specific problem and offers a proven solution with insights into how it works, so that you can modify the code and configuration files to suit your requirements. The React Cookbook starts with recipes for installing and setting up the React.js environment with the Create React Apps tool. You’ll understand how to build web components, forms, animations, and handle events. You’ll then delve into Redux for state management and build amazing UI designs. With the help of practical solutions, this book will guide you in testing, debugging, and scaling your web applications, and get to grips with web technologies like WebPack, Node, and Firebase to develop web APIs and implement SSR capabilities in your apps. Before you wrap up, the recipes on React Native and React VR will assist you in exploring mobile development with React. By the end of the book, you will have become familiar with all the essential tools and best practices required to build efficient solutions on the web with React.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Most Common React Interview Questions

Building a form using Redux Form

Redux Form is typically used for large forms or steps forms because it has a Redux state to keep the values through the entire form. Also, Redux Form is handy to validate the data and efficiently handle the submission.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need to install Redux Form as follows:

 npm install redux-form

How to do it...

For this recipe, we are going to make the same Todo List, but this time using Redux Form:

  1. Once we've installed Redux Form, we need to do some modifications to the code of the last recipe to implement...