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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

In the last chapter of The React Workshop, we started by taking a look at some previously discussed fundamentals about Refs and React in general. Concepts such as encapsulation via props and the different ways to use Refs led to you finally gaining traction with Refs. From there, you went on to not only use Refs for practical use cases but also explored cloneElement and createPortal, which are often encountered when applying Refs in React source code.

Afterward, you explored more sophisticated concepts of React when you leveraged a higher-order component to enhance child components by cloning and adding custom props to them. On top of that, you beamed components from your React application to an outer scope using React portals. Finally, you put all the pieces together and implemented a modal that encapsulates all the logic and that is controllable via props. The modal is so flexible and reusable that it can be put anywhere in the source code and be passed a mounting point...