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Published inJul 2018

Reading LevelBeginner

Publisher

ISBN-139781789530520

Edition1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1)

Andrea Chiarelli

Summary

In this chapter, we started to explore the React world. In particular, we:

Established that React is a user interface library, used to implement the View part of various MV* design patterns
Introduced the create-react-app tool, which helps us to set up a development environment to build React-based applications
Explored the items composing a typical React-based application
Analyzed the approach to designing user interfaces that best fits in the React world

In the next chapter, we will discover how to create React components to build user interfaces for our application.

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Author (1)

Andrea Chiarelli

Andrea Chiarelli has over 20 years experience as a software engineer and technical writer. In his professional career, he has used various technologies for the projects he has been involved in: from C# to JavaScript, from Angular to React, from ASP.NET to PhoneGap/Cordova. He has contributed to many online and offline magazines and has been the author of a few books published by Wrox Press and Packt. Currently, he is a senior software engineer at the Italian office of Apparound, Inc. and a regular contributor to HTML.it, an Italian online magazine focused on web technologies. You can follow him on Twitter at @andychiare.
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