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Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By : Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus
Book Image

Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By: Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus

Overview of this book

<p>The latest trend in web development, Isomorphic JavaScript, allows developers to overcome some of the shortcomings of single-page applications by running the same code on the server as well as on the client. Leading this trend is React, which, when coupled with Node, allows developers to build JavaScript apps that are much faster and more SEO-friendly than single-page applications.</p> <p>This book begins by showing you how to develop frontend components in React. It will then show you how to bind these components to back-end web services that leverage the power of Node. You'll see how web services can be used with React code to offload and maintain the application logic. By the end of this book, you will be able to save a significant amount of development time by learning to combine React and Node to code fast, scalable apps in pure JavaScript.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Building a static version in React


Now, let's open the sample project from Chapter 1, Getting Started with Isomorphic Web Apps, and start hacking. First, we are going to drop the App component, because it was used solely for demonstration purposes and won't be used down the road in our app.

Then move Html.js into the Html subfolder for consistency with the other components we are going to create and add the components/Html/package.json file with the following contents:

{ 
  "private": true, 
  "name": "Html", 
  "main": "./Html.js" 
} 

Now, let's create the Header component (components/Header/Header.js, components/Header/package.json), which will looks similar to this:

import React from 'react'; 
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

function Header({ children }) { 
  return ( 
    <header> 
      <div> 
        <span>My App</span> 
        { 
          !children && 
          <form><input type="search" /></form> 
        } 
      <div>...