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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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Christopher Pitt Christopher Pitt
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Artemij Fedosejev Artemij Fedosejev
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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

Analyzing your web application's architecture

To answer these questions, let's zoom out from the implementation details and explore our application's architecture:

  • The app.js file renders our Application component
  • The Application component manages a collection of tweets and renders our Stream and Collection components
  • The Stream component receives the new tweets from the SnapkiteStreamClient library and renders the StreamTweet and Header components
  • The Collection component renders the CollectionControls and TweetList components

Stop right there. Can you tell how data flows inside our application? Do you know where it enters our application? How does a new tweet end up in our collection? Let's examine our data flow more closely:

  1. We use the SnapkiteStreamClient library to receive a new tweet inside a Stream component.
  2. This new tweet is then passed from Stream to the StreamTweet component.
  3. The StreamTweet component passes it to the Tweet component, which renders the tweet image...
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