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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

Getting started with forms


"Forms behave slightly differently in the React world than in the normal HTML world. They are a bit special than the other DOM components in the React world. The <input>, <textarea>, and <option> tags are some of the common input components provided by React." explained Mike.

"These form components are mutated when the user interacts with them, adds some text in the input, or selects an option. Therefore, we need to take care that we are managing those user interactions properly." Mike explained further.

"Let's start with a simple input tag to understand the user interaction." informed Mike.

// src/index.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

var InputExample = React.createClass({
  render() {
    return (
      <input type="text" value="Shawn" />
    );
  }
});
ReactDOM.render(<InputExample />,  
                 document.getElementById('root'));

"Mike, what is the meaning of import here?" asked Shawn.

"Good...