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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React

You're reading from   Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React Build modern and scalable full stack applications using Spring Framework 5 and React with Hooks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822361
Length 316 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Basic React components

According to Facebook, Inc., React is a JavaScript library for user interfaces. Since version 15, React has been developed under the MIT license. React is component-based and the components are independent and reusable. The 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 kind of components you have to create and how they interact.

From the following screenshot of the mock, 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:

The components can then be arranged in the following tree hierarchy. The important thing to understand with React is that the dataflow is going from the parent component...

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