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React Key Concepts

You're reading from   React Key Concepts An in-depth guide to React's core features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836202271
Length 544 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Maximilian Schwarzmüller Maximilian Schwarzmüller
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. React – What and Why 2. Understanding React Components and JSX FREE CHAPTER 3. Components and Props 4. Working with Events and State 5. Rendering Lists and Conditional Content 6. Styling React Apps 7. Portals and Refs 8. Handling Side Effects 9. Handling User Input & Forms with Form Actions 10. Behind the Scenes of React and Optimization Opportunities 11. Working with Complex State 12. Building Custom React Hooks 13. Multipage Apps with React Router 14. Managing Data with React Router 15. Server-side Rendering & Building Fullstack Apps with Next.js 16. React Server Components & Server Actions 17. Understanding React Suspense & The use() Hook 18. Next Steps and Further Resources 19. Other Books You May Enjoy 20. Index

Getting Started with React Router and Defining Routes

React Router is a third-party React library that can be installed in any React project. Once installed, you can use various components in your code to enable the aforementioned features.

Inside your React project, the package is installed via this command:

npm install react-router-dom

Once installed, you can import and use various components (and Hooks) from that library.

To start supporting multiple pages in your React app, you need to set up routing by going through the following steps:

  1. Create different components for your different pages (e.g., Dashboard and Orders components).
  2. Use the createBrowserRouter() function and the RouterProvider component from the React Router library to enable routing and define the routes that should be supported by the React app.

In this context, the term routing refers to the React app being able to load different components for different URL paths (e.g., different components for the / and /orders...

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