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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

Creating Backbone models


"So, Shawn, let's go ahead and build out our cats' collection that we want to display. For the purpose of development, we are going to use cat images from lorempixel service, for example, http://lorempixel.com/600/600/cats/. This will give us a random cat image of 600 x 600 pixels."

"Next, we are going to create a store of data using different-than-normal objects. We want to explore how to embed different model flows with our React app here. In our case, let's make use of Backbone models, instead of the PICTURES constant. I know that you have already used Backbone."

"Yup, I have used it in my previous projects."

"Alright then, let's define our Cat model."

const PictureModel = Backbone.Model.extend({
  defaults: {
    src: 'http://lorempixel.com/601/600/cats/',
    name: 'Pusheen',
    details: 'Pusheen is a Cat'
  }
});

"Here we store the src for the image of a cat, its name, and some details about it. As you can see, we have provided some default values for these attributes...