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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

Adding new pages


So far, we are able to change and remove pages from our content management system. We ended the last chapter by seeding our local storage with a serialized array, so we could see it in action. Let's take a step back and make a way to create new pages through the interface.

First, we'll add an insert method and update the constructor method of Backend:

constructor() {
    super();

    var pages = LocalStore.get("pages", []);

    this.id = 1;

    this.pages = pages.map((page) => {
        page.id = this.id++;
        return page;
    });
}

insert() {
    this.pages.push({
        "id": this.id,
        "title": "New page " + this.id,
        "body": ""
    });

    this.id++;

    LocalStore.set("pages", this.pages);

    this.emit("update", this.pages);
}

The page id values aren't really important to us outside the context of our React components. So, it's fine to regenerate them as the pages are loaded from local storage. We keep track of the internal id value, so new...