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Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 3 and React

You're reading from   Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 3 and React Build modern web applications using the power of Java, React, and TypeScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805122463
Length 454 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part I: Backend Programming with Spring Boot
2. Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Backend FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Dependency Injection 4. Using JPA to Create and Access a Database 5. Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot 6. Securing Your Backend 7. Testing Your Backend 8. Part II: Frontend Programming with React
9. Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend 10. Getting Started with React 11. Introduction to TypeScript 12. Consuming the REST API with React 13. Useful Third-Party Components for React 14. Part III: Full Stack Development
15. Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service 16. Adding CRUD Functionalities 17. Styling the Frontend with MUI 18. Testing React Apps 19. Securing Your Application 20. Deploying Your Application 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Creating React components

React is a JavaScript library for user interfaces (UIs). Since version 15, React has been developed under the MIT license. React is component-based, and the components are independent and reusable. Components are the basic building blocks of React. When you start to develop a UI with React, it is good to start by creating mock interfaces. That way, it will be easy to identify what kinds of components you have to create and how they interact.

From the following mock UI, we can see how the UI can be split into components. In this case, there will be an application root component, a search bar component, a table component, and a table row component:

Figure 8.1: React components

The components can then be arranged in a tree hierarchy, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.2 – Component tree

Figure 8.2: Component tree

The root component has two child components: the search component and the table component. The table component has one child component...

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