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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 13. Redux and React

In the previous chapter, we dived into Flux as an architecture. We saw how problems arise during data sharing across components. We saw different parts of this architecture—Actions, Stores, Views, and Dispatcher—and build upon our example using pure Flux, Dispatcher from Facebook, and EventEmitter. Finally, we built a simple application to see how all these components are tied up together to create a simple flow to share a common state across components.

In this chapter, we will take a look at using Flux in a popular Flux-based state management implementation, Redux. We will see how it differs from pure Flux implementation that we saw previously. We will take a look at different components of Redux—its stores, actions, and reducers for the stores and actions. Finally, we will see how an app connects with the store, maintains a single state of the store, and passes information around in the views.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Redux

  • Setting up...