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Doel Sengupta is a software programmer and is working in the industry for over 7 years, as a DevOps engineer and as a developer building enterprise level Web and mobile applications using RubyonRails and Rhomobile, Chef. Currently she is exploring the Javascript ecosystem. She has been a speaker in Ruby conferences. She finds interest in life sciences and has publications of her work in customised human joint prostheses design using Ansys & Mimics. She is an avid blogger (www.doels.net) writing about her technical and not-so-technical passions like culinary, photography, films. Follow her on twitter @doelsengupta.
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Manu Singhal has been a programmer for 8 years and loves to code on Ruby and React. These days, he is busy cofounding a startup in e-commerce. In earlier roles, he has developed many enterprise and consumer based web/mobile applications and has also been a speaker at Ruby Conferences in India and the USA. He never misses a chance to play tennis and go hiking. He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services and McKinsey & Company as a software developer and an architect. He has contributed in books on Rhomobile and RubyMotion by Packt earlier.
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Danillo Corvalan is a software engineer who is passionate about software patterns and practices. He has a keen interest in the rapidly changing world of software development. He is quite insistent about the need of fast and reliable frameworks. He is originally from Brazil, now living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He loves biking a lot. In Brazil, he worked on applications for the general public and lawyers, at the Court of Justice in his hometown city, Cuiab/MT. Then, he moved to Florianpolis/SC, and worked at Bravi Software for developing hybrid and responsive web apps for education. Now, in Amsterdam, he is working at Vigour.io and helping to develop live multiscreen and responsive apps. From the web client-side perspective, in general, he has been in touch with technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone, and ReactJS. For the past 5 years, Danillo has also worked with open source platforms and JavaScript on the server side (Node.js). He has played with React Native in order to develop native mobile applications with ReactJS.
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React uses SyntheticEvent, which is a cross-browser wrapper around the browser's native event. So all the event handlers in the react applications will be passed instances of SyntheticEvent. React's event ecosystem has the same interface as any of the browser's native events with the advantage that it works identically in all the browsers and provides stopPropagation() and preventDefault() too.

If React is installed as an NPM module, then these SyntheticEvent-related files can be found in the following location within your app: app/node_modules/react/lib.

All these events comply with the W3C standard. The main event flow happens as:

  • Dispatching the event : @param {object} dispatchConfig

  • Marker identifying the event target: @param {object} dispatchMarker

  • Native event: @param {object} nativeEvent

The way React uses this event delegation is by listening to the nodes that have listeners. Depending on the event handlers on the particular node, the synthetic event system of React implements its...

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Doel Sengupta is a software programmer and is working in the industry for over 7 years, as a DevOps engineer and as a developer building enterprise level Web and mobile applications using RubyonRails and Rhomobile, Chef. Currently she is exploring the Javascript ecosystem. She has been a speaker in Ruby conferences. She finds interest in life sciences and has publications of her work in customised human joint prostheses design using Ansys & Mimics. She is an avid blogger (www.doels.net) writing about her technical and not-so-technical passions like culinary, photography, films. Follow her on twitter @doelsengupta.
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Manu Singhal

Manu Singhal has been a programmer for 8 years and loves to code on Ruby and React. These days, he is busy cofounding a startup in e-commerce. In earlier roles, he has developed many enterprise and consumer based web/mobile applications and has also been a speaker at Ruby Conferences in India and the USA. He never misses a chance to play tennis and go hiking. He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services and McKinsey & Company as a software developer and an architect. He has contributed in books on Rhomobile and RubyMotion by Packt earlier.
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Danillo Corvalan

Danillo Corvalan is a software engineer who is passionate about software patterns and practices. He has a keen interest in the rapidly changing world of software development. He is quite insistent about the need of fast and reliable frameworks. He is originally from Brazil, now living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He loves biking a lot. In Brazil, he worked on applications for the general public and lawyers, at the Court of Justice in his hometown city, Cuiab/MT. Then, he moved to Florianpolis/SC, and worked at Bravi Software for developing hybrid and responsive web apps for education. Now, in Amsterdam, he is working at Vigour.io and helping to develop live multiscreen and responsive apps. From the web client-side perspective, in general, he has been in touch with technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone, and ReactJS. For the past 5 years, Danillo has also worked with open source platforms and JavaScript on the server side (Node.js). He has played with React Native in order to develop native mobile applications with ReactJS.
Read more about Danillo Corvalan