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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

The PERF addon


"Let's start with installing the PERF addon."

$ npm install react-addons-perf --save-dev

"We need this add-on only in the development mode. This is an important point to remember because in production, we don't need the debugging information as it may make our app slow." informed Mike.

"Shawn, the PERF add-on can be used to see what changes React is doing with the DOM, where is it spending time while rendering our app, is it wasting some time while rendering, and so on. This information can then be used to improve the performance of the app." said Mike.

"Let's start by exposing the PERF add-on as a global object. We can use it in the browser console while our app is running to see how React is making changes as per the user interactions." explained Mike.

// index.js
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import React from 'react';
import App from './App';
import Perf from 'react-addons-perf';

window.Perf = Perf;

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('rootElement...