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Full-Stack React Projects

By : Shama Hoque
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Full-Stack React Projects

By: Shama Hoque

Overview of this book

The benefits of using a full JavaScript stack for web development are undeniable, especially when robust and widely adopted technologies such as React, Node, and Express and are available. Combining the power of React with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, creates a diverse array of possibilities when developing real-world web applications. This book guides you through preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, to creating a basic skeleton application and extending it to build four different web applications. These applications include a social media, an online marketplace, a media streaming, and a web-based game application with virtual reality features. While learning to set up the stack and developing a diverse range of applications with this book, you will grasp the inner workings of the MERN stack, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable knowledge of how to prepare MERN-based applications to meet the growing demands of real-world web applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Autoplaying related media


We will complete the autoplay functionality discussed earlier by adding a toggle in PlayMedia, and implementing the handleAutoplay method, which needs to be called when a video ends, in the MediaPlayer component.

Toggling autoplay

Besides letting the user set autoplay, the toggle will also indicate whether it is currently set or not:

For the autoplay toggle, we will use a Material-UISwitch component along with a FormControlLabel, and add it to the PlayMedia component over the RelatedMedia component to be rendered only when there are media in the related media list.

mern-mediastream/client/media/PlayMedia.js:

<FormControlLabel 
    control={
            <Switch
              checked={this.state.autoPlay}
              onChange={this.handleChange}
              color="primary"
            />
          }
    label={this.state.autoPlay? 'Autoplay ON':'Autoplay OFF'}
/>

To handle the change to the toggle and reflect it in the state's autoplay value, we will use...