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React: Building Modern Web Applications
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React: Building Modern Web Applications

by Jonathan Hayward, Artemij Fedosejev, Narayan Prusty, Adam Horton, Ryan Vice, Ethan Holmes, Tom Bray
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
18h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Planning your React application

There are two simple guidelines we need to follow when planning your React application:

  • Each React component should represent a single user interface element in your web application. It should encapsulate the smallest element possible that can potentially be reused.
  • Multiple React components should be composed into a single React component. Ultimately, your entire user interface should be encapsulated in one React component.
    Planning your React application

    Diagram of our React components hierarchy

We'll begin with our topmost React component, Application. It will encapsulate our entire React application, and it will have two child components: the

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