Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Building Serverless Web Applications

You're reading from   Building Serverless Web Applications Develop scalable web apps using the Serverless Framework on AWS

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126473
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Diego Zanon Diego Zanon
Author Profile Icon Diego Zanon
Diego Zanon
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Getting started with React

Teaching frontend tools is not the objective of this book, but we need to build something useful to see how serverless deals with modern frontend development. We will use React here because it is currently one of the most popular tools. If you don't know what React is or how to use it, I'll guide you to understand the basic concepts.

React principles

The first thing you should note is that React is a library and not a framework. The difference is that a library provides a set of functionalities to solve a specific problem, and a framework provides a set of libraries centered on a particular methodology.

React is only responsible for the view layer of your application. That's the problem...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime