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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 React to render on server


"Hey Shawn!" Mike startled Shawn, entering their workplace with a cup of coffee.

"Good morning, Mike," replied Shawn.

Sun sparkled on Shawn's desk and they entered into a conversation about a new project that they were about to begin.

"Shawn, I just came to know, from Carla, about a new project that we need to take. The client has asked us to build a simple search page for our Open Library project."

Shawn and Mike had previously build an application to display recent changes from openlibrary.com API. They were now going to build a search application on top of Open Library's Search API.

"Awesome," Mike was excited about this. He was already loving working on React.

"Shawn, for this project, we will be exploring options on how to use React on the server."

Until now, we have been manually mounting our components after page load. Until the component is rendered, the page doesn't have any HTML content from the component.

"Let's see how we will be doing this on the server...