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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

Over the course of this chapter, we explored the basics of React Router and the various Router implementation strategies that you can take when you are just getting started. It is important to have a better means of natural navigation via a browser; this allows for a clean separation of components into their logical use cases and allows the user to use their back button in the browser. It is a better, cleaner separation for users and for developers, and now we have a great working knowledge not just of the library itself, but also a little insight into how it works behind the scenes as well.

In later chapters, we will explore React Router in greater detail, showcasing some of the more advanced functionality. We will be able to take our implementations with React Router from basic applications to the next level and build upon the foundations that we have established in this chapter.