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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

5 (1)
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

Understanding Browser Routing

Modern web browsers have History and Location APIs that provide access, through the browser, to the different parts of the browser's history, location, and state. By using this functionality, you will be able to effectively handle routing. For example, the History API in modern browsers exposes the web browser's current session state and allows you to manipulate that state, either by moving forward using forward(), moving backward using back(), or moving to a specific point in the history using go().

The Location APIs allow JavaScript code to inspect the current location and path through the window.location.href and window.location.path properties and pull different types of information from it, allowing developers to figure out the navigation paths on a website and handle them accordingly.

React Router is a library for React that handles navigation and URLs and translates them into displaying the appropriate component for the URL.

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