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React 16 Essentials

You're reading from   React 16 Essentials A fast-paced, hands-on guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React 16

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787126046
Length 240 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. What's New in React 16 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Powerful Tools for Your Project 3. Creating Your First React Element 4. Creating Your First React Component 5. Making Your React Components Reactive 6. Using Your React Components with Another Library 7. Updating Your React Components 8. Building Complex React Components 9. Testing Your React Application with Jest 10. Supercharging Your React Architecture with Flux 11. Preparing Your React Application for Painless Maintenance with Flux 12. Refining Your Flux Apps with Redux Index

Getting data from the Twitter Streaming API


The data for our React application will come from Twitter. Twitter has a Streaming API that anyone can plug into and start receiving an endless flow of public tweets in the JSON format.

To start using the Twitter Streaming API, you'll need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create a Twitter account. For this, go to https://twitter.com and sign up; or sign in if you already have an account.

  2. Create a new Twitter app by navigating to https://apps.twitter.com, and click on Create New App. You will need to fill the Application Details form, agree with Developer Agreement, and click on Create your Twitter application. Now you should see your application's page. Switch to the Keys and Access Tokens tab.

In the Application Settings section of this page, you'll find two vital pieces of information:

  • Consumer Key (API Key), for example, jqRDrAlKQCbCbu2o4iclpnvem

  • Consumer Secret (API Secret), for example, wJcdogJih7uLpjzcs2JtAvdSyCVlqHIRUWI70aHOAf7E3wWIgD

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