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Modern JavaScript Applications

By : Narayan Prusty
Book Image

Modern JavaScript Applications

By: Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Over the years, JavaScript has become vital to the development of a wide range of applications with different architectures. But JS moves lightning fast, and it’s easy to fall behind. Modern JavaScript Applications is designed to get you exploring the latest features of JavaScript and how they can be applied to develop high-quality applications with different architectures. Begin by creating a single page application that builds on the innovative MVC approach using AngularJS, then move forward to develop an enterprise-level application with the microservices architecture using Node to build web services. After that, shift your focus to network programming concepts as you build a real-time web application with websockets. Learn to build responsive, declarative UIs with React and Bootstrap, and see how the performance of web applications can be enhanced using Functional Reactive Programming (FRP). Along the way, explore how the power of JavaScript can be increased multi-fold with high performance techniques. By the end of the book, you’ll be a skilled JavaScript developer with a solid knowledge of the latest JavaScript techniques, tools, and architecture to build modern web apps.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Modern JavaScript Applications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Digging into components


Let's dig further into components and master them. We'll look at component composition and ownership. Learning this will help us build complex reactive UIs that are easier to manage.

Component composition

Composability is a feature that lets you use a component inside another component's render method.

Let's look at a basic example of component composition. First, create a new container element. To do so, place the following code in the body tag:

<div id="container5"></div>

Here is the component composition example code. Place this code in the script tag that's compiled by Babel:

var ResponsiveImage = React.createClass({
  render: function(){

    var imgWidth = {
      width: "100%"
    }

    return (
      <img src={this.props.src} style={imgWidth} />
    )
  }
})

var Card = React.createClass({
  render: function(){
    var CardContainerStyle = {
      maxWidth: 300,
      backgroundColor: "grey"
    }

    return (
      <div style={CardContainerStyle...