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React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition
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React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

by Carlos Santana Roldán
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
350 pages
7h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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A data fetching example

The example in the previous section should explain clearly how to set up a universal application in React.

It is pretty straightforward, and the main focus is on getting things done.

However, in a real-world application, we will likely want to load some data instead of a static React component, such as App in the example. Suppose we want to load Dan Abramov's gists on the server and return the list of items from the Express app we just created.

In the data fetching examples in Chapter 5, Proper Data Fetching, we looked at how we can use componentDidMount to fire the data loading. That wouldn't work on the server because components do not get mounted on the DOM and the life cycle hook never gets fired.

Using hooks that ...

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