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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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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

Installing React

To start using the React library, we need to first install it. I am going to show you two ways of doing this: the simplest one and the one using the npm install command.

The simplest way is to add the <script> tag to our ~/snapterest/build/index.html file:

  • For the development version of React, add the following command:
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.14.0-beta3/react.js"></script>
  • For the production version version of React, add the following command:
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.14.0-beta3/react.min.js"></script>

There is a difference between the two that we'll learn about in the later chapters of this book. For our project, we'll be using the development version of React.

At the time of writing, the latest version of React library is 0.14.0-beta3. Over time, React gets updated, so make sure you use the latest version that is available to you, unless it introduces...

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