What this book covers
Chapter 1, Thinking in Components, looks at the need to think of entire interfaces as a composition of small components and how to build them using modern ES6 JavaScript.
Chapter 2, Working with Properties and State, takes a comprehensive look at many aspects of property and state management, sharing a few more ES6 tricks along the way.
Chapter 3, Saving and Communicating Data, looks at reactive programming using event emitters and unidirectional flow of data.
Chapter 4, Styling and Animating Components, takes a look at how components can be styled and animated both inline and using stylesheets.
Chapter 5, Going Material!, explores material design and applies what you learn to our set of components.
Chapter 6, Changing Views, looks at ways of transitioning between different views with routing and animation.
Chapter 7, Rendering on the Server, takes a look at the process of rendering components through nodes and some ways of structuring server-side application code.
Chapter 8, React Design Patterns, explores different architectures such as Flux and Redux.
Chapter 9, Thinking of Plugins, looks at how to build components with dependency injection and extension points.
Chapter 10, Testing Components, explores various ways of ensuring that components are error-free and that changes to parts of an application don't have cascading effects on other parts.
