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Progressive Web Apps with React

You're reading from   Progressive Web Apps with React Create lightning fast web apps with native power using React and Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297554
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Scott Domes Scott Domes
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Preface 1. Creating Our App Structure FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Webpack 3. Our App's Login Page 4. Easy Backend Setup With Firebase 5. Routing with React 6. Completing Our App 7. Adding a Service Worker 8. Using a Service Worker to Send Push Notifications 9. Making Our App Installable with a Manifest 10. The App Shell 11. Chunking JavaScript to Optimize Performance with Webpack 12. Ready to Cache 13. Auditing Our App 14. Conclusion and Next Steps

State in React

Every React component has something called state. You can think of this as the configuration of the component at a certain point of time.

Take, for example, a heart icon that turns red when you click on it, as in the case of Twitter. The button has two states: unclicked and clicked. Clicking on the button causes its state, and thus its appearance, to change.

That's the flow in React; user actions or events cause the component state to change, which causes the component's appearance to change.

The preceding statement comes with an enormous helping of "Well, not always…," but it's a useful starting point to understand state:

User event -> State change -> Appearance change

Let's add some state to our LoginContainer, and then go from there.

State is easy to define; it's an object that is the property of the class. We can...

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