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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React

You're reading from   Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React Build modern and scalable full stack applications using Spring Framework 5 and React with Hooks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822361
Length 316 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Backend Programming with Spring Boot FREE CHAPTER
2. Setting Up the Environment and Tools - Backend 3. Dependency Injection 4. Using JPA to Create and Access a Database 5. Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot 6. Securing and Testing Your Backend 7. Section 2: Frontend Programming with React
8. Setting Up the Environment and Tools - Frontend 9. Getting Started with React 10. Consuming the REST API with React 11. Useful Third-Party Components for React 12. Section 3: Full Stack Development
13. Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service 14. Adding CRUD Functionalities 15. Styling the Frontend with React Material-UI 16. Testing Your Frontend 17. Securing Your Application 18. Deploying Your Application 19. Best Practices 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Props and the state

Props and the state are the input data for rendering the component. Both props and the state are actually JavaScript objects, and the component is re-rendered when the props or the state change.

The props are immutable, so the component cannot change its props. The props are received from the parent component. The component can access the props through the this.props object. For example, let's take a look at the following component:

class Hello extends React.Component {
render() {
return <h1>Hello World {this.props.user}</h1>;
}
}

The parent component can send props to the Hello component in the following way:

<Hello user="John" />

When the Hello component is rendered, it shows the Hello World John text.

The state can be changed inside the component. The initial value of the state is given in the component's constructor...

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