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Modern JavaScript Applications

You're reading from   Modern JavaScript Applications Keep abreast of the practical uses of modern JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881442
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Preface 1. Breaking into Microservices Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Coupon Site 3. Communication between Browsers in Real Time 4. Building a Chatroulette 5. Bidirectional Communication in Real Time 6. Building a Live Score Site 7. Functional Reactive Programming 8. Building an Advanced Profile Search Widget 9. New Features of Bootstrap 4 10. Building User Interfaces Using React 11. Building an RSS Reader Using React and Flux 12. New Features of Angular 2 13. Building a Search Engine Template Using AngularJS 2 14. Securing and Scaling Node.js Applications Index

Introduction to React Router

The RSS feed reader application we will create is going to be a single-page application. In single-page applications, routes are defined on the frontend instead of the backend. We need some sort of library that lets us define routes and assign components to them, that is, it can keep the UI in sync with the URL.

React Router is the most popular and recommended routing library for React. It provides a simple API with powerful features such as dynamic route matching and location transition handling built in.

You can find the source code of React Router at https://github.com/reactjs/react-router and the CDN version at https://cdnjs.com/libraries/react-router.

Here is a code sample of how to define routes using React Router and assign components to them:

var Router = ReactRouter.Router;
var Route = ReactRouter.Route;
var Link = ReactRouter.Link;
var BrowserHistory = ReactRouter.browserHistory;

var Routes = (
  <Router history={BrowserHistory}>
    <Route...
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