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React.js Essentials

You're reading from   React.js Essentials A fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551620
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Artemij Fedosejev Artemij Fedosejev
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Powerful Tools for Your Project 2. Create Your First React Element FREE CHAPTER 3. Create Your First React Component 4. Make Your React Components Reactive 5. Use Your React Components with Another Library 6. Update Your React Components 7. Build Complex React Components 8. Test Your React Application with Jest 9. Supercharge Your React Architecture with Flux 10. Prepare Your React Application for Painless Maintenance with Flux Index

Refactoring the CollectionRenameForm component


CollectionRenameForm is a controlled form component. This means that its input value is stored in the component's state, and the only way to update that value is to update the component's state. It has the initial value that it should get from CollectionStore, so let's make that happen.

First, we need to import the CollectionActionCreators and CollectionStore modules:

var CollectionActionCreators = require('../actions/CollectionActionCreators');
var CollectionStore = require('../stores/CollectionStore');

Now, we need to update the getInitialState() method as follows:

getInitialState: function() {
  return {
     inputValue: this.props.name
  };
},

Now we change it to this code snippet:

getInitialState: function() {
  return {
    inputValue: CollectionStore.getCollectionName()
  };
},

As you can see, the only difference is that now we get the initial inputValue from CollectionStore.

Next, let's update the handleFormSubmit() method by using the following...

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