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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

Basics of React Router

We have now looked at what we can accomplish through the browser's own built-in Location APIs. Imagine a library that is far more fully featured and built to accommodate the explicit purpose of making single-page applications way easier to navigate via browser mechanisms that the user is likely very comfortable with. The React Router library provides the functionalities that you require to make an application more interactive and intuitive. The library has gone through a few different revisions over the years, but the core of how to use it has remained similar across all iterations.

React Router provides several different built-in mechanisms for routing to components, handling default and error routes, and even more in-depth functionality such as dealing with authentication.

When we talk about React Router, a discussion of a few key components that will be imported and used while building the React Router project is necessary. So, let's get...