React: Building Modern Web Applications

Chapter 4. Make Your React Components Reactive

Now that you know how to create React components with and without a state, we can start composing React components together and build more complex user interfaces. In fact, it's time for us to start building our web application, called Snapterest, that we discussed in Chapter 1, Installing Powerful Tools for Your Project. While doing this, we'll learn how to plan your React application and create composable React components. Let's begin.

Solving a problem using React

Before you start writing code for your web application, you need to think about the problems that your web application is going to solve. It's very important to understand that defining the problem as clearly and as early as possible is ...