Planning your React application
There are two simple guidelines we need to follow when planning your React application:
- Each React component should represent a single user interface element in your web application. It should encapsulate the smallest element possible that can potentially be reused.
- Multiple React components should be composed into a single React component. Ultimately, your entire user interface should be encapsulated in one React component.
We'll begin with our topmost React component, Application
. It will encapsulate our entire React application, and it will have two child components: the Stream
and Collection
components. The Stream
component will be responsible for connecting to a stream of tweets, and receiving and displaying the latest tweet. The Stream
component will have two child components: StreamTweet
and Header
. The StreamTweet
component will be responsible for displaying the latest tweet. It will be composed of the Header...