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Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux, Second edition
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Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux, Second edition

by Kirupa Chinnathambi
May 2018
Beginner
304 pages
8h 21m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux, Second edition

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Creating a Single-Page App in React Using React Router

Now that you’ve familiarized yourself with the basics of how to work with React, let’s kick things up a few notches. Here we’re going to use React to build a simple single-page app (also referred to as SPA by the cool kids and people living in Scandinavia). As we talked about in our React introduction forever ago, single-page apps are different from the more traditional multipage apps that you see everywhere. The biggest difference is that navigating a single-page app doesn’t involve going to an entirely new page. Instead, your pages (commonly known as views in this context) typically load inline within the same page itself:

When you’re loading content inline, things get a little challenging. ...

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