5 Building user interfaces with React

This chapter covers

  • An overview of the fundamental concepts of React
  • Getting started with React, using the Create React App CLI tool
  • Working with state in a React application, using React Hooks

So far in the book, we’ve been focused on the backend aspects of our application: building the GraphQL API and working with the database. Now it’s time to turn our attention to the frontend. In chapter 1, we got a very brief overview of React and looked at a minimal code snippet of a React component. In this chapter, we return to React and begin building a React application that will be a client of our GraphQL API, searching for businesses and rendering results in the browser. Of course, it would be impossible to ...

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