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MERN Quick Start Guide

By : Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova
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Book Image

MERN Quick Start Guide

3 (1)
By: Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova

Overview of this book

The MERN stack is a collection of great tools—MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node—that provide a strong base for a developer to build easily maintainable web applications. With each of them a JavaScript or JavaScript-based technology, having a shared programming language means it takes less time to develop web applications. This book focuses on providing key tasks that can help you get started, learn, understand, and build full-stack web applications. It walks you through the process of installing all the requirements and project setup to build client-side React web applications, managing synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux, and building real-time web applications with Socket.IO, RESTful APIs, and other concepts. This book gives you practical and clear hands-on experience so you can begin building a full-stack MERN web application. Quick Start Guides are focused, shorter titles that provide a faster paced introduction to a technology. They are for people who don't need all the detail at this point in their learning curve. The presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Working with forms and inputs in React

Form-associated elements, such as <input> and <textarea>, usually maintain their own internal state and update it according to the user input. In React, when the input of a form-associated element is managed using the React state, it's called a controlled component.

By default, in React, if the value property of an input is not set, then the input internal state can be mutated by the user input. However, if the value property is set, then the input is read-only and it expects React to manage the user input by using the onChange React event and manage the input's state using the React state to update it if necessary. For example, this input React element will be rendered as read-only:

<input type="text" value="Ms.Huang Jx" /> 

However, because React expects to find an onChange event handler,...