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React Components

By : Christopher Pitt
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React Components

By: Christopher Pitt

Overview of this book

The reader will learn how to use React and its component-based architecture in order to develop modern user interfaces. A new holistic way of thinking about UI development will establish throughout this book and the reader will discover the power of React components with many examples. After reading the book and following the example application, the reader has built a small to a mid-size application with React using a component based UI architecture. The book will take the reader through a journey to discover the benefits of component-based user interfaces over the classical MVC architecture. Throughout the book, the reader will develop a wide range of components and then bring them together to build a component-based UI. By the end of this book, readers would have learned several techniques to build powerful components and how the component-based development is beneficial over regular web development.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
React Components
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Where we are


Let's take a look at the things we have created so far and how they interact with each other. If you've been following closely, this may all be familiar to you; but stick with it.

We will talk about how these interactions are failing us and how we can improve them. From the moment our interface begins to render, we start to see the following things happen:

  1. We begin by creating a backend object. We use this as a store for the pages in our application. This has methods such as add, edit, delete, and all. It also acts as an event emitter, notifying listeners whenever pages change.

  2. We create a PageAdmin React component and pass the Backend object to it. The PageAdmin component uses the Backend object as a data source for other page components, all of which are created within the PageAdmin render method. The PageAdmin component listens for changes in Backend as soon as it is mounted. It stops listening after it is unmounted.

  3. The PageAdmin component has a few callbacks, which it passes...