ReactJS by Example- Building Modern Web Applications with React

Get up and running with ReactJS by developing five cutting-edge and responsive projects About This Book * Create pragmatic real-world applications while learning React and its modern developer tools * Build sustainable user interfaces by transforming data into components of UI * Learn how to generate reusable ReactJS components effectively Who This Book Is For If you are a web developer and wish to learn ReactJS from scratch then this book is tailor-made for you. Good understanding of Javascript HTML and CSS is expected. What You Will Learn * Create reuse and compose React components using JSX * Share data between various React components and techniques for data flow within a React app * Handle user interactions with the help of event handlers and dynamic components * Set up and use various next generation ES2015/ES6 features with React * Understand the performance and immutability features of React using React add-ons * Learn the techniques of Animation in React * Use data stores to store model-related data and information * Create a flux-based React application by using Reflux library In Detail ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library that brings the power of reactive programming to web applications and sites. It aims to address the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications and is intended to help developers build large easily scalable and changing web apps. Starting with a project on Open Library API you will be introduced to React and JSX before moving on to learning about the life cycle of a React component. In the second project building a multi-step wizard form you will learn about composite dynamic components and perform DOM actions. You will also learn about building a fast search engine by exploring server-side rendering in the third project on a search engine application. Next you will build a simple frontpage for an e-commerce app in the fourth project by using data models and React add-ons. In the final project you wil