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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

JSX Gotchas


The day was heading to an end. Mike and Shawn were still discussing about this shiny new thing—JSX. Mike decided that it was time to tell Shawn about the issues with using JSX.

"Shawn, so how do you feel about using JSX?"

"I liked it so far. It's very similar to the HTML markup. I can pass attributes, styles, and even classes. I can also use all the DOM elements" explained Shawn.

"Yes. But JSX is not HTML. We have to always remember this. Otherwise, we will run into trouble."

"For example, if you want to pass some custom attribute that does not exist in the HTML specification, then React will simply ignore it."

// custom-attribute won't be rendered
<table custom-attribute = 'super_awesome_table'>
</table>

"It must be passed as a data attribute so that React will render it."

// data-custom-attribute will be rendered
<table data-custom-attribute = 'super_awesome_table'>
</table>

"We may also run into some issues while rendering the HTML content dynamically. In the...