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React Components

By : Christopher Pitt
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React Components

By: Christopher Pitt

Overview of this book

The reader will learn how to use React and its component-based architecture in order to develop modern user interfaces. A new holistic way of thinking about UI development will establish throughout this book and the reader will discover the power of React components with many examples. After reading the book and following the example application, the reader has built a small to a mid-size application with React using a component based UI architecture. The book will take the reader through a journey to discover the benefits of component-based user interfaces over the classical MVC architecture. Throughout the book, the reader will develop a wide range of components and then bring them together to build a component-based UI. By the end of this book, readers would have learned several techniques to build powerful components and how the component-based development is beneficial over regular web development.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
React Components
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Testing in JSBin


If you're anything like me, you'll often just want a quick place to test some small component or ES6 code. Setting up these build chains or live browser environments takes time. There is a quicker way. It's called JSBin and you can find it at https://jsbin.com:

To get the most out of JSBin, be sure to set the JavaScript dropdown to ES6/Babel and include the ReactJS scripts from CDNJS. These are pre-built versions of ReactJS, so you can create React components (using ES6 features) straight from the browser.

Tip

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