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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

By : Harmeet Singh, Mayur Tanna
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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

By: Harmeet Singh, Mayur Tanna

Overview of this book

ReactJS is a wonderful framework for UI development. Firebase as a backend with React is a great choice as it is easy, powerful, and provides great developer experience. It removes a lot of boilerplate code from your app and allows you to focus on your app to get it out quickly to users. Firebase with React is also a good choice for Most Viable Product (MVP) development. This book provides more practical insights rather than just theoretical concepts and includes basic to advanced examples – from hello world to a real-time seat booking app and Helpdesk application This book will cover the essentials of Firebase and React.js and will take you on a fast-paced journey through building real-time applications with Firebase features such as Cloud Storage, Cloud Function, Hosting and the Realtime Database. We will learn how to secure our application by using Firebase authentication and database security rules. We will leverage the power of Redux to organize data in the front-end, since Redux attempts to make state mutations predictable by imposing certain restrictions on how and when updates can happen. Towards the end of the book you will have improved your React skills by realizing the potential of Firebase to create real-time serverless web applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Firebase and React
Index

Best practices with React and Redux


Whenever we have components with dynamic functionality, data comes into the picture; the same way, in React, we have to deal with dynamic data, which seems easy but not every time.

Sounds confusing!

It is easy but sometimes tough because, in React components, it’s easy to pass properties with many ways for building rendering tree from it, but there is not much clarity to update the view.

In the preceding chapters, this statement is clearly shown, so if you are still not clear, refer to those.

Use of Redux

As we know, in SPAs (single page applications), when we have to contract with state and time, it will be difficult to handgrip state over time. Here, Redux helps a lot, how? This is because, in a JavaScript application, Redux is handling two states: one is Data state and another is UI state, and it’s a standard option for SPAs (single page applications). Moreover, bear in mind that Redux can be used with Angular or Jquery or React JavaScript libraries or frameworks...