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ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React

By : Vipul A M
Book Image

ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React

By: Vipul A M

Overview of this book

ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library that brings the power of reactive programming to web applications and sites. It aims to address the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications, and is intended to help developers build large, easily scalable and changing web apps. Starting with a project on Open Library API, you will be introduced to React and JSX before moving on to learning about the life cycle of a React component. In the second project, building a multi-step wizard form, you will learn about composite dynamic components and perform DOM actions. You will also learn about building a fast search engine by exploring server-side rendering in the third project on a search engine application. Next, you will build a simple frontpage for an e-commerce app in the fourth project by using data models and React add-ons. In the final project you will develop a complete social media tracker by using the flux way of defining React apps and know about the best practices and use cases with the help of ES6 and redux. By the end of this book, you will not only have a good understanding of ReactJS but will also have built your very own responsive frontend applications from scratch.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Animation

In the previous chapter, we took a look at react-router and performed routing at different levels. We also looked at nested routing, passing around parameters, and how react-router maintains history when performing the routing tasks. We learned about passing around context and using context to render React components. We explored data models and mixed and matched them with other frameworks to use as data models in React-like Backbone, and were introduced to Flux.

In this chapter, we are going to explore a fun React add-on, Animation. We will start off by continuing with our Cat Pinterest application and enhancing it to support starring and sharing the data to update the views. We will then explore adding handlers for animation. We will see how components get wrapped for animation and how React adds the handlers for different events. We will also explore different events and how we can easily enhance our application in order to create stunning effects.

In this chapter...