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The React Workshop

The React Workshop

By : Brandon Richey , Ryan Yu , Endre Vegh , Theofanis Despoudis , Anton Punith , Florian Sloot
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The React Workshop

The React Workshop

4.4 (10)
By: Brandon Richey , Ryan Yu , Endre Vegh , Theofanis Despoudis , Anton Punith , Florian Sloot

Overview of this book

Are you interested in how React takes command of the view layer for web and mobile apps and changes the data of large web applications without needing to reload the page? This workshop will help you learn how and show you how to develop and enhance web apps using the features of the React framework with interesting examples and exercises. The workshop starts by demonstrating how to create your first React project. You’ll tap into React’s popular feature JSX to develop templates and use DOM events to make your project interactive. Next, you’ll focus on the lifecycle of the React component and understand how components are created, mounted, unmounted, and destroyed. Later, you’ll create and customize components to understand the data flow in React and how props and state communicate between components. You’ll also use Formik to create forms in React to explore the concept of controlled and uncontrolled components and even play with React Router to navigate between React components. The chapters that follow will help you build an interesting image-search app to fetch data from the outside world and populate the data to the React app. Finally, you’ll understand what ref API is and how it is used to manipulate DOM in an imperative way. By the end of this React book, you’ll have the skills you need to set up and create web apps using React.
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Preface

Introduction

In the previous chapters, we have seen how React handles state in class components. By the end of 2018, however, React developers had come up with a completely new API called Hooks, which changes how we manipulate the state of a component. This brings in massive syntax changes within the React framework. Even more importantly, this new method of state management can be used to manipulate state of the functional components.

Nothing in the life of a React component has a more significant effect than Hooks, which, of course, begs the question: what problems do Hooks solve that the former APIs could not? Previously, if we wanted to declare a state, we had to create a whole class and all the boilerplate code for that. Hooks, on the other hand, enable you to declare the state of a component with just one line. Hooks make React code more readable, maintainable, and reusable, while also making it a lot easier for newcomers to understand.

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