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Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

By : Shama Hoque
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Book Image

Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

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By: Shama Hoque

Overview of this book

Facebook's React combined with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, enables you to develop and deploy robust real-world full-stack web apps. This updated second edition focuses on the latest versions and conventions of the technologies in this stack, along with their new features such as Hooks in React and async/await in JavaScript. The book also explores advanced topics such as implementing real-time bidding, a web-based classroom app, and data visualization in an expense tracking app. Full-Stack React Projects will take you through the process of preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, creating a basic skeleton app, and extending it to build six different web apps. You’ll build apps for social media, classrooms, media streaming, online marketplaces with real-time bidding, and web-based games with virtual reality features. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how MERN stack web development works, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable insights into creating MERN-based apps, along with exploring industry best practices to meet the ever-increasing demands of the real world. By the end of this React book, you’ll be able to build production-ready MERN full-stack apps using advanced tools and techniques in modern web development.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Getting Started with MERN
4
Building MERN from the Ground Up
8
Developing Web Applications with MERN
13
Advancing to Complex MERN Applications
19
Going Forward with MERN

Interacting with Posts

A core feature of any social media platform is the ability for users to interact with shared content. For the posts that are created in the MERN Social application, we will add the options to like and leave comments on individual posts.

To complete the implementation of this feature, first, we will have to modify the backend so that we can add API endpoints that update an existing post with details of who liked the post and details of comments left on the post.

Then, in the frontend, we will have to modify the UI so that users can like and leave a comment on a post.

Likes

The like option in the Post component's action bar section will allow the user to like or unlike a post, and also show the total...