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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

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we saw the detailed approach of using Hooks inside a component. We extracted the component into a separate and unique hook so that we can reuse it elsewhere across multiple components. Then, we went on and externalized the logic and created our own custom hook that lived outside the component.

We have seen how every hook has its own utility and we have figured out how to apply them to suit our needs; and all of this without using class-based components, which can easily grow out of control if we want to modify or reuse them. When we build programs and applications, however, we realize that they are not isolated systems. We need to think about their global state management, dependencies, theming, and so on; for example, when you set up a theme in your project and you most likely want to use it throughout your entire app. That theme object gives consistency in every component. Alternatively, if you have an app that requires authentication, you...