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React 16 Essentials

You're reading from   React 16 Essentials A fast-paced, hands-on guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React 16

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787126046
Length 240 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. What's New in React 16 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Powerful Tools for Your Project 3. Creating Your First React Element 4. Creating Your First React Component 5. Making Your React Components Reactive 6. Using Your React Components with Another Library 7. Updating Your React Components 8. Building Complex React Components 9. Testing Your React Application with Jest 10. Supercharging Your React Architecture with Flux 11. Preparing Your React Application for Painless Maintenance with Flux 12. Refining Your Flux Apps with Redux Index

Creating the project structure


Now it's time to create our project structure. Organizing source files may sound like a simple task, but a well-thought-out project structure organization helps us understand the underlying architecture of our application. You'll see an example of this later in this book, when we'll talk about the Flux application architecture. Let's start by creating our root project directory named snapterest inside your home directory ~/snapterest/.

Then, inside it, we will create two other directories:

  • ~/snapterest/source/: Here, we'll store our source JavaScript files

  • ~/snapterest/build/: Here, we'll put compiled JavaScript files and an HTML file

Now, inside ~/snapterest/source/, create the components/ folder so that your project structure would look like this:

  • ~/snapterest/source/components/

  • ~/snapterest/build/

Now when we have our fundamental project structure ready, let's start populating it with our application files. First, we need to create our main application file...

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