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Learning React

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  • Copyright 2017
  • Dimensions: 7" x 9"
  • Pages: 240
  • Edition: 1st
  • eBook (Watermarked)
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-454650-4
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-454650-6

Learning ReactA hands-on guide to building maintainable, high-performing web application user interfaces using the React JavaScript library
As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps much, much easier.

What React isn’t, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until now. In Learning React, author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help you understand the fundamentals of React and how to use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps.

  • Build your first React app
  • Create components to define parts of your UI
  • Combine components into other components to build more complex UIs
  • Use JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScript
  • Deal with maintaining state
  • Work with React’s way of styling content
  • Make sense of the mysterious component lifecycle
  • Build multi-page apps using routing and views
  • Optimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack, and others
Contents at a Glance
Chapter 1  Introducing React 
Chapter 2  Building Your First React App Chapter 3  Components in ReactChapter 4  Styling in React
Chapter 5  Creating Complex Components
Chapter 6  Transferring Properties (Props) 
Chapter 7  Meet JSX–Again!
Chapter 8  Dealing with State
Chapter 9  Going from Data to UI
Chapter 10  Working with Events
Chapter 11  The Component Lifecycle
Chapter 12  Accessing DOM Elements 
Chapter 13  Creating a Single-Page App Using React Router
Chapter 14  Building a Todo List App 
Chapter 15  Setting Up Your React Development Environment
Chapter 16  The EndChapter 17 (Web Edition) Working With External DataChapter 18 (Web Edition) Creating a Sliding Menu Using React Motion
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1  Introducing React 
Old School Multi-Page Design
New School Single-Page Apps
Meet React 
    Automatic UI State Management 
    Lightning-fast DOM Manipulation 
    APIs to Create Truly Composable UIs
    Visuals Defined Entirely in JavaScript
    Just the V in an MVC Architecture
Chapter 2  Building Your First React App 
Dealing with JSX 
Getting Your React On
Displaying Your Name  
It’s All Still Familiar 
    Changing the Destination    Styling It Up!
Chapter 3  Components in React
A Quick Review of Functions
Changing How We Deal with the UI
Meet the React Component
    Creating a Hello, World! Component
    Specifying Properties
    Dealing with Children
Chapter 4  Styling in React
Displaying Some Vowels
Styling React Content Using CSS
    Understand the Generated HTML
    Just Style It Already!  
Styling Content the React Way
    Creating a Style Object
    Actually Styling Our Content
    You Can Omit the “px” Suffix
    Making the Background Color Customizable
Chapter 5  Creating Complex Components
From Visuals to Components
    Identifying the Major Visual Elements
    Identifying the Components
Creating the Components
    The Card Component 
    The Square Component
    The Label Component
    Passing Properties, Again!
Why Component Composability Rocks 
Chapter 6  Transferring Properties (Props) 
Problem Overview 
Detailed Look at the Problem 
Meet the Spread Operator
Properly Transferring Properties
Chapter 7  Meet JSX–Again!
What Happens with JSX?
JSX Quirks to Remembe
    You Can Only Return A Single Root Node
    You Can’t Specify CSS Inline
        Reserved Keywords and className
Comments
    Capitalization, HTML Elements, and Components
    Your JSX Can Be Anywhere
Chapter 8  Dealing with State
Using State
    Our Starting Point
Getting Our Counter On
    Setting the Initial State Value
    Starting Our Timer and Setting State
    Rendering the State Change
Optional: The Full Code
Conclusion
Chapter 9  Going from Data to UI
The Example
Your JSX Can Be Anywhere–Part II
Dealing with Arrays in the Context of JSX
Chapter 10  Working with Events
Listening and Reacting to Events
    Starting Point
    Making the Button Click Do Something
    Event Properties
    Doing Stuff With Event Properties
    More Eventing Shenanigans
    Listening to Regular DOM Events
    The Meaning of this Inside the Event Handler
React...Why? Why?!
    Browser Compatibility
    Improved Performance
Chapter 11  The Component Lifecycle
Meet the Lifecycle Methods
    See the Lifecycle Methods in Action
    The Initial Rendering Phase
    The Updating Phase
    The Unmounting Phase
Chapter 12  Accessing DOM Elements 
Meet Refs
Chapter 13  Creating a Single-Page App Using React Router
The Example
Building the App 
    Displaying the Initial Frame  
    Displaying the Home Page
    Interim Cleanup Time
    Displaying the Home Page Correctly 
    Creating the Navigation Links
    Adding the Stuff and Contact Views
    Creating Active Links 
Chapter 14  Building a Todo List App 
Getting Started 
Creating the UI 
Creating the Functionality
    Initializing our State Object 
    Handling the Form Submit 
    Populating Our State 
    Displaying the Tasks 
    Adding the Finishing Touches 
Chapter 15  Setting Up Your React Development Environment
Meet the Tools
    Node.js    
    Babel  
    webpack
    Your Code Editor 
It Is Environment Setup Time!
    Setting up our Initial Project Structure 
    Installing and Initializing Node.js
    Installing the React Dependencies
    Adding our JSX File
    Going from JSX to JavaScript 
    Building and Testing Our App 
Chapter 16  The End


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