ReactJS For Stupid People TL;DR I struggled for a long time trying to understand what React is and how it fits in the application architecture. This post is what I wish someone had told me. What is React? How does React compare to Angular, Ember, Backbone, et al? How do you handle data? How do you contact the server? Stop. Stop it right now. React is ONLY THE VIEW LAYER. React is often mentioned in the same breath as other Javascript frameworks, but "React vs Angular" doesn't make sense because they aren't directly comparable things. React gives you a template language and some function hooks to essentially render HTML. You absolutely cannot build a fully functional dynamic application with React alone. The Good After working with React for a while, I've seen three very important benefits surface. 1. This may be the most important benefit, even though it is not different from Angular templates. Say you have to update your site's header with the user's name upon log in. Here's how you might do it in React: 2. 3. The Bad
The Future of Web Development - React, Falcor, and ES6 | Widen Engineering In this article, I’m going provide a glimpse into the future of web development. You will gain a new perspective on structuring a user interface, server, and data endpoints. In other words, I will cover the full “stack” - both the browser and server code - and you will be able to examine and execute all of the referenced code in a fully-functional GitHub repository. I must assume that you, as a developer, possess the following qualities: Intermediate understanding of JavaScript. If you lack any of these qualities, you may still be able to navigate this article and the related code, but these gaps in your knowledge will likely prevent you from extending my code to support a more realistic or non-trivial scenario. A new and shiny approach. In order to address each of these goals, I decided to replace my current lineup of tools with an entirely new set, some of which I had never used before. A futuristic stack React In short, I really appreciate the relatively narrow focus of React. Falcor
Tyler McGinnis » React.js Tutorial Pt 1: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Apps with React.js Table of Contents: Pt I: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Apps with React.js. Pt II: Building React.js Apps with Gulp, and Browserify. Pt III: Architecting React.js Apps with Flux. Pt IV: Add Routing to your React App with React Router. Pt V: Add Data Persistence to your React App with Firebase. Pt VI: Combining React.js, Flux, React Router, Firebase, Gulp, and Browserify. React.js The Bigger Picture: By now you’ve probably heard about facebook’s React. As you’ve started to learn React you’ve probably ran into this problem. As mentioned above, this blog series will have six parts. Pt II: Building React.js Apps with Gulp, and Browserify. Pt III: Architecting React.js Apps with Flux. React.js Fundamentals: Components are the building blocks of React. What makes React so convenient for building user interfaces is that data is either received from a component’s parent component, or it’s contained in the component itself. Above we have a picture of my Twitter profile. Component LifeCycle Events
Trying out React - Artsy Engineering We recently picked up a Rails application that was a few features away from completion. This application allows our Genome Team to classify multiple artworks based on visual and art historical characteristics. These characteristics, or "genes", can be added, removed, and changed for any of the artworks on the panel. Our genomers are masters of efficiency, and over the years we have worked closely with them to tailor a dynamic interface to their specific workflow. When we started working on the app, the back-end was organized, modular, and interfaced seamlessly with the Artsy API, but there were still a few front-end features we needed to implement before it could be used by the Genome Team. The app did not use a front-end framework, and as our features scaled it was difficult to keep track of UI state with pure CoffeeScript and global event listeners. Choosing a Suitable Framework In line with the React tutorial, we first broke up our UI into functional and visual components. Challenges
React.js resources It has been some time (almost 2 years?) since we started using React.js at Arkency. It quickly propagated to all of our projects. Along the way, we’ve been blogging a lot about what we learnt. So far we’ve released: 28 blogposts5 open repositoriesReact.js koans7 YT videos2 books (with repos)dozens of emails to our React Kung Fu mailing list This blogpost is an attempt to put all the resources in one place. Rails meets React.js The book will teach you: How to install and configure React.js in your Rails project.Working with dynamic React based forms.How to transform your view to React-managed components.What you can use React.js for in your projects and how.Detailed knowledge about how to use it and best practices to work with React.js, with examples.How to test React components.You will also get Ruby and CoffeeScript code for the examples.And it begins with a tutorial so that you start with practical skills. Buy Rails meets React.js React.js by example
React vs Angular 2 - final Tutorial: Setting Up a Simple Isomorphic React app Note: this tutorial assumes React 0.13 and React-Router 0.13. Updates coming soon for the new versions After hearing the responses of one of my other tutorials, it quickly became evident that a quick Google search on "setting up React" led to very confusing results. One of the biggest causes of this confusion is what an "isomorphic app" is. The project is on Github, and the following is a quick walkthrough of how to start from scratch. The goal of this project/tutorial to not only get someone's projected started but to clarify the process behind an isomorphic app. Isomorphism The main idea behind an isomrophic app is that instead of bundling all your React code into a single bundle (and then using something like <script src="bundle.js"> in a bare bones html page), you run a Node.js server that serves the files for you. With that, I will bring you through the entire set up process. Tutorial The tutorial will use the following stack: Installation Afterwards create your directory structure: React
How to Structure a React Project? – ReactJS News Editor’s Note: Please check out the React Indie Bundle. Juho and many other members of the React community help put it together. All of the proceeds go towards awesome people in our community. Programming is a bit like gardening. There are multiple ways to structure your project. Everything in One File The simplest of projects can fit into a single file. You could start working on a React project in a similar manner. Multiple Files The obvious way to solve this problem is to start splitting things up. app $ tree . ├── components │ ├── App.jsx │ └── Note.jsx ├── index.jsx └── main.css Here index.jsx works as the entry point of the application. If you wanted to test your components, you would add a separate directory for tests and develop them there. You can get quite far with this basic structure. Components in Their Own Directories This problem can be solved by adding more structure the system. Adding Views to the Mix This is likely where opinions begin to diverge. Dealing with Data Concerns
9 things every React.js beginner should know - Cam Jackson I've been using React.js for about 6 months now. In the grand scheme of things that's not very long at all, but in the ever-churning world of JavaScript frameworks, that just about qualifies you as a bearded elder! I've helped out a few people lately with React starter tips, so I thought it would be a good idea to write some of them up here to share more broadly. These are all either things that I wish I'd known when I started out, or things that really helped me 'get' React. I'm going to assume that you know the absolute basics; if the words component, props, or state are unfamiliar to you, then you might want to read the official Getting started or Tutorial pages. 1. Let's get the basics out of the way. 2. This might seem like an obvious one, but it's worth calling out. const LatestPostsComponent = props => ( <section><div><h1>Latest posts</h1></div><div> { props.posts.map(post =><PostPreview key={post.slug} post={post}/>) } </div></section> ); 3. ... and the other being ES6 classes:
Learn React By Itself -- no JSX, no Flux, no ES6, no Webpack. Disclaimer: I love JSX, Flux, ES6 and Webpack. I’ll discuss these tools more in another series. So you’ve heard all the fuss about React.js – apparently it is the best thing since XMLHttpRequest. But you’ve spent a couple hours investigating, only to find so many buzzwords that it just feels overwhelming. JSX and flux and ES6 and webpack and react-router and all I want is somebody to just tell me how to use React already! Luckily for you, that’s exactly what this series will do! Exercise 1 – Write a single-file React.js app Have you worked with JavaScript, CSS and HTML before? The result of this exercise is a single HTML file, which contains your first React app. Step 1 Copy this HTML into a new file and save it somewhere: <! This HTML file does two important things – it creates the div where your rendered content will live (with id react-app), and it loads the two library files where React lives. With that done, let’s move on to: Step 2 Why type it out instead of copy and paste? Step 3 Got it?
React.js Conf 2016 Quick Summaries — Day 1, Part 1 Rich Text Editing with React Isaac Salier-Hellendag (Facebook) The below technology has been open-sourced by Facebook! Plain text is boring. As UI engineers, we want to provide our product teams with the tools to implement and expand upon these features without pushing them into the contentEditable pit of despair. This talk will dive into the details of how we used React, ImmutableJS, and yes, contentEditable, to create an editor framework that enables engineers to build and customize rich text composition experiences across Facebook. Anatomy of a Facebook input, consists of text, mentions, hashtags, all highlighted, all different data ContentEditable, the good parts @Mentions example initial state operates on simple text for mentionssplit around “@mention” from simple textinsert structured textapply mention to text rangeadd meta-dataExpress a complex edit operation as a composition of simple operations.
State of React and CSS — KADIRA VOICE — Medium Recently, I started to work on a project that helps us to develop UI components isolated from the main app. Initially, I assumed everyone would write CSS in JavaScript with React. After a while I realized that it’s not fair to assume that everyone would write CSS in JavaScript. In this article, I will share what I found from the research. 🤓: Wait. It’s React Storybook. How do we use CSS? The first question we should ask is how we are using CSS. Frontend Developer The role of the frontend developer is to implement business functionalities. Frontend developers don’t usually worry too much about CSS. UI Designer The role of the UI designer is to build great User Interfaces that customers love. Basically, UI designers need to make sure that the design they create in Photoshop is what is actually implemented. They usually care a lot about CSS and work with the components created by the Frontend Developer. Core developer Architect So, who’s going to decide what should we use in our project? 🤓: Wow.
What are some good react tutorials out there? Sorry for the self promotion, but I wrote a few React tutorials with someone like you in mind. They're only covering the basics of React, coding directly in an html file, so they don't involve getting up and running with Node+React. But I think that should be tackled after you know the basics of React. Building Your First React App: Building Your Second React App: React.JS in 8 minutes:
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