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Published inJun 2018
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ISBN-139781789138085
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Juha Hinkula
Juha Hinkula
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Juha Hinkula is a software development lecturer at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and he has over 17 years of industry experience in software development. Over the past few years, he has focused on modern full stack development. He is also a passionate mobile developer with Android-native technology, and also uses React Native.
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In this book, we are using the Windows operating system, but all tools are available for Linux and macOS as well.

Basic React components

According to Facebook, React is a JavaScript library for user interfaces. Since version 15, React has been developed under the MIT license. React is component-based and the components are independent and reusable. The components are basic building blocks of React. When you start to develop a user interface with React, it is good to start by creating  a mock interfaces. That way, it is easy to identify what kind of components you have to create and how they interact.

From the following diagram of the mock, we can see how the user interface can be split into components. In this case, there will be an application root component, a search bar component, a table component, and a table row component:

The components can then be arranged in the following tree hierarchy. The important thing to understand with React is that the dataflow is going...

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Juha Hinkula

Juha Hinkula is a software development lecturer at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He received an MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki and he has over 17 years of industry experience in software development. Over the past few years, he has focused on modern full stack development. He is also a passionate mobile developer with Android-native technology, and also uses React Native.
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