React.js essentials : a fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js /: a fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js
• Further Information: Note: Artemij Fedosejev ; foreword by Alex Bush.
• Authors: Fedosejev, Artemij
• Other Names: Bush, Alex author of foreword.
• Contents: Cover ; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Installing Powerful Tools for Your Project ; Approaching our project; Installing Node.js and npm; Installing Git; Getting data from the Twitter Streaming API; Filtering data with Snapkite Engine; Creating the project structure; Creating package.json; Reusing Node.js modules; Building with Gulp.js; Creating a web page; Summary; Chapter 2: Create Your First React Element ; Understanding the virtual DOM ; Installing React Creating React Elements with JavaScriptThe type parameter; The props parameter; The children parameter; Rendering React Elements; Creating React Elements with JSX; Summary; Chapter 3: Create Your First React Component ; Stateless versus stateful; Creating your first stateless React component; Creating your first stateful React component; Summary; Chapter 4: Make Your React Components Reactive ; Solving a problem using React; Planning your React application; Creating a container React component; Summary; Chapter 5: Use Your React Components with Another Library Using another library in your React componentUnderstanding React component's lifecycle methods; Mounting methods; The getInitialState method; The componentWillMount method; The componentDidMount method; Unmounting methods; The componentWillUnmount method; Summary; Chapter 6: Update Your React Components ; Understanding component lifecycle's updating methods; The componentWillReceiveProps method; The shouldComponentUpdate method; The componentWillUpdate method; The componentDidUpdate method; Setting default React component properties; Validating React component properties Creating a Collection componentSummary; Chapter 7 : Build Complex React Components ; Creating the TweetList component; Creating the CollectionControls component; Creating the CollectionRenameForm component; Creating the Button component; Creating the CollectionExportForm component; Summary; Chapter 8: Test Your React Application with Jest ; Why write unit tests?; Creating test suits, specs, and expectations; Installing and running Jest; Creating multiple specs and expectations; Testing React components; Summary; Chapter 9: Supercharge Your React Architecture with Flux Analyzing your web application's architectureUnderstanding Flux; Creating a dispatcher; Creating an action creator; Creating a store; Summary; Chapter 10: Prepare Your React Application for Painless Maintenance with Flux ; Decoupling concerns with Flux; Refactoring the Stream component; Creating CollectionStore; Creating CollectionActionCreators; Refactoring the Application component; Refactoring the Collection component; Refactoring the CollectionControls component; Refactoring the CollectionRenameForm component; Refactoring the TweetList component; Refactoring the StreamTweet component
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.2762; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- JavaScript; Web applications; Web applications -- Design; JavaScript (Computer program language); Application software -- Development; Client/server computing; Java (Computer program language); JavaScript (Computer program language); Web applications; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- HTML; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Java; COMPUTERS -- Web -- Social Networking; COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content; Electronic books; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782174622; 1782174621
• Related ISBNs: 9781783551620; 1783551623
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed September 20, 2015).
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