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Getting Started with React

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Published in Apr 2016

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ISBN-13 9781783550579

Pages 212 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Front End Web Development

Authors (3):

Doel Sengupta

Manu Singhal

Danillo Corvalan

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Getting Started with React

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started with ReactJS

2. Exploring JSX and the ReactJS Anatomy

3. Working with Properties

4. Stateful Components and Events

5. Component Life cycle and Newer ECMAScript in React

6. Reacting with Flux

7. Making Your Component Reusable

8. Testing React Components

9. Preparing Your Code for Deployment

10. What's Next

Index

An overview of Flux

Flux should not be confused as a framework based on ReactJS. Flux is an architecture and is designed in order to reduce the complexity of a huge application built with Model View Controller (MVC) architecture and has been designed as an alternative of MVC.

The following are the different Flux components:

View—This is like for any web app, the views (basically the react component) receives the event and passes it to the Actions
Action—They are helper methods (actionCreators) that pass the data (payload) and actionType, received from an external API/view to a dispatcher
Dispatcher—These are Central hub of all registered callbacks. It receives the actions and acts as a "traffic controller" before it passes it to the Stores
Store—It is a data layer that stores all the computations and business logic. It is also responsible for storing the application state and the single source of truth for the application state. It receives the action from the dispatchers based on the registered...

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Authors (3)

Doel Sengupta

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.

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