Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node

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Vasan SubramanianPro MERN Stackhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4391-6_3

3. React Components

Vasan Subramanian¹ 

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

In the Hello World example, we created a very basic React native component, using pure JSX. However, in the real world, you will want to do much more than what a simple single-line JSX can do. That is where React components come in. React components can be composed using other components and basic HTML elements; they can respond to user input, change state, interact with other components, and much more.

But, before going into all that detail, let me first describe the application that we will build as part of this book. At every step that we take in this as well as the following ...