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Beginning React

By : Andrea Chiarelli
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Beginning React

By: Andrea Chiarelli

Overview of this book

Projects like Angular and React are rapidly changing how development teams build and deploy web applications to production. In this book, you’ll learn the basics you need to get up and running with React and tackle real-world projects and challenges. It includes helpful guidance on how to consider key user requirements within the development process, and also shows you how to work with advanced concepts such as state management, data-binding, routing, and the popular component markup that is JSX. As you complete the included examples, you’ll find yourself well-equipped to move onto a real-world personal or professional frontend project.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Composing Components


When defining React components, we can use them as the children of another component by using that component as a React element. We already saw this when we included the Catalog component inside of the App component, but let's analyze this composition further.

Combining Components

We will now see how to combine components in order to create new, complex components:

  1. Open the src/ProductList.js file in the my-shop-03 folder
  2. Follow the text until the end of the section

Let's consider the following component:

import React from 'react';
class ProductList extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <ul>
      <li>
        <h3>Traditional Merlot</h3>
        <p>A bottle of middle weight wine, lower in tannins (smoother), 
           with a more red-fruited flavor profile.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <h3>Classic Chianti</h3>
        <p>A medium-bodied wine characterized by a marvelous freshness with 
 ...