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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

Ultimately, like so many other parts of React, understanding and mastering the framework hinges on being able to apply the rules and syntax of JavaScript that you are already familiar with. It's part of the strength of React; nothing you do is so intensely foreign that it's difficult to reason about. You can almost always take something you know in JavaScript and apply it, with few modifications. In the span of this chapter, we focused on applying conditionals and loops, two very basic building blocks of all JavaScript code bases and applied them to React and JSX.

These are some of the primary scenarios that you will run into when building React applications. Your applications will hinge on their ability to, ironically enough, react to dynamic states. You will rarely write static components and code in modern web applications and React not only knows this but discourages it. In the next chapter, we will learn how to use lifecycle methods to manipulate the state...