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The React Workshop

By : Brandon Richey, Ryan Yu, Endre Vegh, Theofanis Despoudis, Anton Punith, Florian Sloot
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Book Image

The React Workshop

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By: Brandon Richey, Ryan Yu, Endre Vegh, Theofanis Despoudis, Anton Punith, Florian Sloot

Overview of this book

Are you interested in how React takes command of the view layer for web and mobile apps and changes the data of large web applications without needing to reload the page? This workshop will help you learn how and show you how to develop and enhance web apps using the features of the React framework with interesting examples and exercises. The workshop starts by demonstrating how to create your first React project. You’ll tap into React’s popular feature JSX to develop templates and use DOM events to make your project interactive. Next, you’ll focus on the lifecycle of the React component and understand how components are created, mounted, unmounted, and destroyed. Later, you’ll create and customize components to understand the data flow in React and how props and state communicate between components. You’ll also use Formik to create forms in React to explore the concept of controlled and uncontrolled components and even play with React Router to navigate between React components. The chapters that follow will help you build an interesting image-search app to fetch data from the outside world and populate the data to the React app. Finally, you’ll understand what ref API is and how it is used to manipulate DOM in an imperative way. By the end of this React book, you’ll have the skills you need to set up and create web apps using React.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface

Summary

It is important to understand the many moving pieces involved in building React projects, as each one lends itself well to the context and decisions made when building React. Understanding the historical context helps frame the questions around why implementing some things in React is the way it is. In addition, understanding how to use the Create React App framework helps you get moving faster and building new projects with less fuss and effort, making it a critical part of your development workflow.

We also now have a strong understanding of the basic building blocks of any React component, regardless of the level of complexity. We can define small, lightweight components using functional syntax, which is a very common idiom in modern React development. We can also define larger, stateful components using class syntax, which also helps us plan for and architect our more complicated React components in ways that are easy to develop on, maintain, and support over the...