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React Key Concepts

You're reading from   React Key Concepts Consolidate your knowledge of React's core features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234502
Length 590 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maximilian Schwarzmüller Maximilian Schwarzmüller
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface
1. React – What and Why FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding React Components and JSX 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. Behind the Scenes of React and Optimization Opportunities 10. Working with Complex State 11. Building Custom React Hooks 12. Multipage Apps with React Router 13. Managing Data with React Router 14. Next Steps and Further Resources Appendix

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 BrowserRouter, Routes, and Route components 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...

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