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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

A new adventure


"Hi Shawn and Mike!" exclaimed Carla.

Shawn and Mike were startled. They had just got in and were about to start their day. The past few days had been a lot of React exploration for them.

"I have some good news for you guys. We got a new project, where we need to build a cat-based interest site. Something like say – Pinterest? Users can like images and profiles of cats. They can then see and like related articles for sale, as well," continued Carla.

"Oh, nice," replied Shawn.

Shawn and Mike regrouped and started a conversation about the new project that they just heard from Carla.

"This is nice. So, I guess, we want to display a small Pinterest-style gallery of images in panel shapes?" inquired Shawn.

"Correct," continued Mike. "We also want to display the images in large scale, maybe in a modal after a user clicks on the image. Carla said she wants random cats to be featured in the footer, which should take us to a full-fledged cat display page."

"You know what, I know the perfect...