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ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React

By : Vipul A M
Book Image

ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React

By: Vipul A M

Overview of this book

ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library that brings the power of reactive programming to web applications and sites. It aims to address the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications, and is intended to help developers build large, easily scalable and changing web apps. Starting with a project on Open Library API, you will be introduced to React and JSX before moving on to learning about the life cycle of a React component. In the second project, building a multi-step wizard form, you will learn about composite dynamic components and perform DOM actions. You will also learn about building a fast search engine by exploring server-side rendering in the third project on a search engine application. Next, you will build a simple frontpage for an e-commerce app in the fourth project by using data models and React add-ons. In the final project you will develop a complete social media tracker by using the flux way of defining React apps and know about the best practices and use cases with the help of ES6 and redux. By the end of this book, you will not only have a good understanding of ReactJS but will also have built your very own responsive frontend applications from scratch.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Spread attributes


Shawn learned a lot of things about JSX but when he was reflecting on the previous steps, he came up with another question.

"Mike, as of now we are just passing two props to the App component: headings and changesets. However, tomorrow these props can increase to any number. Passing them one by one would be cumbersome. Especially, when we have to pass some data from the recent changes API directly. It will be hard to a keep track of the structure of the incoming data and pass it accordingly in the props. Is there a better way?"

"Another excellent question, Shawn. True, it might be cumbersome passing a large number of attributes to the component one by one. But we can solve this using the spread attributes."

var props = { headings: headings, changeSets: data, timestamps: timestamps };
ReactDOM.render(<App {...props } />, 
                     document.getElementById('container'));

"In this case, all the properties of object are passed as props to the App component. We...