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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

Cloning components


"Shawn, props are also immutable in React. In most of the cases, the child component just uses props passed by the parent component. However, sometimes we want to extend the incoming props with some new data before rendering the child component. It's a typical use case to update styles and CSS classes. React provides an addon to clone a component and extending its props. It's called the cloneWithProps addon." said Mike.

"Mike, that addon is deprecated. I had looked at it in the past and React has deprecated it. It also has lot of issues related to refs of the child component not getting passed to the newly-cloned child components," Shawn informed.

"True. However, React also has a top-level React.cloneElement API method, which allows us to clone and extend a component. It has a very simple API and it can be used instead of the cloneWithProps addon." Mike explained.

React.cloneElement(element, props, …children);

"This method can be used to clone the given element and merge the...