Like in any other applications, AJAX in a React-based application can be used to fetch data asynchronously. According to the Facebook documentation of loading the data from the server using AJAX (https://facebook.github.io/react/tips/initial-ajax.html), you need to remember some of the key points as mentioned here:
Include the jQuery library in your HTML:
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.0.min.js"></script>
Because there is no separate Ajax-only library from jQuery that can be used, the entire jQuery has to be used in a React-based application, while using Ajax. Downloading the minified version of jQuery from cdn results in much less load time.
Load the data in the life cycle phase of
componentDidMount. This method occurs only once during the life cycle on the client, and any child components can be accessed in this phase. Any external js library or loading data using AJAX is advised to be done in this phase.The
isMountedmethod is used to check whether the...
