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Published inApr 2016
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781785289644
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Vipul A M
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Vipul A M is Director at BigBinary. He is part of Rails Issues Team, and helps triaging issues. His spare time is spent exploring and contributing to many Open Source ruby projects, when not dabbling with React JS. Vipul loves Ruby's vibrant community and helps in building PuneRb, is the founder of and runs RubyIndia Community Newsletter and RubyIndia Podcast, and organizes Deccan Ruby Conference in Pune. He can be found @vipulnsward on twitter and on his site http://vipulnsward.com.
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"React provides a way to validate the props using PropTypes. This is extremely useful to ensure that the components are used correctly. Here is an example of using propTypes for our app." explained Mike.

var App = React.createClass({
  propTypes: {
   headings: React.PropTypes.array,
   changeSets: React.PropTypes.array,
   author: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired
   },
  
  render: function(){
    return(<table className = 'table'>
             <Headings headings = {this.props.headings} />
             <Rows changeSets = {this.props.changeSets} />
           </table>);
    }
});

"Oh! Will it show an error as we are not passing the author, which is required, I assume? I see that propTypes has set the author value to be isRequired." Shawn asked.

"No. It will not throw an error, but it will show a nice warning for us to take a look at." said Mike.

"Also, propTypes are only checked in development. Their job is to just check that all the assumptions that...

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Vipul A M

Vipul A M is Director at BigBinary. He is part of Rails Issues Team, and helps triaging issues. His spare time is spent exploring and contributing to many Open Source ruby projects, when not dabbling with React JS. Vipul loves Ruby's vibrant community and helps in building PuneRb, is the founder of and runs RubyIndia Community Newsletter and RubyIndia Podcast, and organizes Deccan Ruby Conference in Pune. He can be found @vipulnsward on twitter and on his site http://vipulnsward.com.
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