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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

Performance of React apps


"Hey Mike, I have few questions for you today. I have been thinking about our search app over the weekend. Do you have some time to discuss them?" Shawn asked.

"Sure, but let me get some coffee first. Okay, I am ready now. Shoot!" said Mike.

"I have few questions about the performance of React apps. I know React is very good at re-rendering the component tree whenever the state changes. React has made it very easy for me to understand and reason my code. However, does it not hamper the performance? Re-rendering seems like a very costly affair, especially when re-rendering large component trees." Shawn asked.

"Shawn, the re-rendering can be expensive. Nevertheless, React is smart about it. It only renders the part that is changed. It does not need to re-render everything on the page. It's also smart at keeping the DOM manipulation as least as possible."

"How is that possible? How does it know which part of the page is changed? Does it not depend on user interactions...