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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 form wizard


"Shawn, our task today is to build a form wizard, modeling all the steps that the user will take while using the online bookstore."

  • We will start with a form, where the user selects the book that they want to buy

  • In the next step, the user will enter the information related to the billing and shipping address

  • After this, the user needs to choose a delivery mechanism

  • In the end, the user will confirm the transaction and place the order

"Will we design four different forms then?" asked Shawn.

"Yes. But all of them will be controlled by a single parent. The parent component will keep a track of the state that the user is in and will render a form for this step." explained Mike.

// src/BookStore.js

import React from 'react';

var BookStore = React.createClass({
  render() {
    switch (step) {
      case 1:
        return <BookList />;
      case 2:
        return <ShippingDetails />;
      case 3:
        return <DeliveryDetails />;
    }
  }
})...