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Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

By : Shama Hoque
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Book Image

Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

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By: Shama Hoque

Overview of this book

Facebook's React combined with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, enables you to develop and deploy robust real-world full-stack web apps. This updated second edition focuses on the latest versions and conventions of the technologies in this stack, along with their new features such as Hooks in React and async/await in JavaScript. The book also explores advanced topics such as implementing real-time bidding, a web-based classroom app, and data visualization in an expense tracking app. Full-Stack React Projects will take you through the process of preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, creating a basic skeleton app, and extending it to build six different web apps. You’ll build apps for social media, classrooms, media streaming, online marketplaces with real-time bidding, and web-based games with virtual reality features. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how MERN stack web development works, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable insights into creating MERN-based apps, along with exploring industry best practices to meet the ever-increasing demands of the real world. By the end of this React book, you’ll be able to build production-ready MERN full-stack apps using advanced tools and techniques in modern web development.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Getting Started with MERN
4
Building MERN from the Ground Up
8
Developing Web Applications with MERN
13
Advancing to Complex MERN Applications
19
Going Forward with MERN

Defining the skeleton application frontend

In order to fully implement the skeleton application features we discussed in the Feature breakdown section of Chapter 3, Building a Backend with MongoDB, Express, and Node, we will add the following user interface components to our base application:

  • Home page: A view that renders at the root URL to welcome users to the web application.
  • Sign-up page: A view with a form for user sign-up, allowing new users to create a user account and redirecting them to a sign-in page when successfully created.
  • Sign-in page: A view with a sign-in form that allows existing users to sign in so they have access to protected views and actions.
  • User list page: A view that fetches and shows a list of all the users in the database, and also links to individual user profiles.
  • Profile page: A component that fetches and displays an individual user's information...