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ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289644
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with React FREE CHAPTER 2. JSX in Depth 3. Data Flow and Life Cycle Events 4. Composite Dynamic Components and Forms 5. Mixins and the DOM 6. React on the Server 7. React Addons 8. Performance of React Apps 9. React Router and Data Models 10. Animation 11. React Tools 12. Flux 13. Redux and React Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with React

Web development has seen a huge advent of Single Page Application (SPA) in the past couple of years. Early development was simple—reload a complete page to perform a change in the display or perform a user action. The problem with this was a huge round-trip time for the complete request to reach the web server and back to the client.

Then came AJAX, which sent a request to the server, and could update parts of the page without reloading the current page. Moving in the same direction, we saw the emergence of the SPAs.

Wrapping up the heavy frontend content and delivering it to the client browser just once, while maintaining a small channel for communication with the server based on any event; this is usually complemented by thin API on the web server.

The growth in such apps has been complemented by JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as Ext JS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, AngularJS, EmberJS, and more recently, React and Polymer.

Let's take a look at how React fits in this ecosystem and get introduced to it in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is React and why do we use React?
  • Data flows in the component
  • Component displays the view based on state of the component
  • Component defines display of the view, irrespective of data contained, thus reducing the dependency and complexity of state for display
  • User interactions may change state of component from handlers
  • Components are reused and re-rendered
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