Getting Started With React [Paperback]

Key Features

• Learn how to develop powerful JavaScript applications using ReactJS
• Integrate a React-based app with an external API (Facebook login) while using React components, with the Facebook developer app
• Implement the Reactive paradigm to build stateless and asynchronous apps with React

Book Description

ReactJS, popularly known as the V (view) of the MVC architecture, was developed by the Facebook and Instagram developers. It follows a unidirectional data flow, virtual DOM, and DOM difference that are generously leveraged in order to increase the performance of the UI.

Getting Started with React will help you implement the Reactive paradigm to build stateless and asynchronous apps with React. We will begin with an overview of ReactJS and its evolution over the years, followed by building a simple React component. We will then build the same react component with JSX syntax to demystify its usage. You will see how to configure the Facebook Graph API, get your friends list, and render it using React.

Following this, we will break the UI into components and you'll learn how to establish communication between them and respond to users input/events in order to have the UI reflect their state. You'll also get to grips with building a chart component that will integrate with D3.

Moving ahead, we will delve into the FLUX and its architecture, which is used to build client-side web applications and complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. Towards the end, you'll find out how to make your components reusable, and test and deploy them into a production environment. Finally, we'll briefly touch on other topics such as React on the server side and the new architecture about controller free design proposed by Facebook.

What you will learn

• Understand the ReactJS basics through an overview
• Install and create your first React component