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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

You're reading from   Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React Build desktop applications with web technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295697
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dmitry Sheiko Dmitry Sheiko
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Preface 1. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js-Planning, Designing, and Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js – Enhancement and Delivery 3. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Planning, Designing, and Development 4. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Enhancement, Testing, and Delivery 5. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js, React, and Redux – Planning, Design, and Development 6. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js: Enhancement, Tooling, and Testing 7. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript , React, and Redux: Planning, Design, and Development 8. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript, React, and Redux: Development

React

React is gaining momentum. It is the most trending technology, according to the 2016 Stack Overflow developer survey (http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016#technology). It is interesting to note that React is not even a framework. It's a JavaScript library for building user interfaces--very clean, concise, and powerful. The library implements the component-driven architecture. So, we create components (reusable, composable, and stateful units of UI) and then use them like Lego blocks to construct the intended UI. React treats the derived structure as an in-memory DOM representation (virtual DOM). As we bind it to the real DOM, React keeps both in sync, meaning that whenever any of its components change their states, React immediately reflects the view changes in the DOM.

Besides that, we can convert virtual DOM in the HTML string (http://bit.ly/2oVsjVn) on the...
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