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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

Working with CSS transitions


It's a great time to talk about CSS transitions. We have used them to fade and slide new Page components in from the left. If you're unfamiliar with how they generally work, the code might be confusing and difficult to change.

There are a few things you should know. The first is that you can transition individual CSS properties or all of them at once:

.background-transition {
    background-color: red;
    font-size: 16px;
    transition-property: background-color;
}

.background-transition:hover {
    background: blue;
    font-size: 18px;
}

In this example, we only want to transition the background color. The font size will immediately jump from 16px to 18px. Alternatively, we can transition all CSS properties:

.all-transition {
    transition-property: all;
}

We've already seen transition duration, albeit briefly. We can use ms or s as units for these:

.background-transition {
    transition-duration: 1s;
}

Then there are timing functions. These control how the animation...