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React in Action
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React in Action

by Mark Thomas
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
12h 19m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 3. Data and data flow in React

This chapter covers

  • Mutable and immutable state
  • Stateful and stateless components
  • Component communication
  • One-way data flow

Chapter 2 was a whirlwind tour of React. We spent some time learning about React at a high level, looked at some of the concepts behind its design and API, and we even went through building a simple comment box with React components. In chapter 4 you’ll start to work more extensively with components and start building the Letters Social sample project. But before you do that, you need to know a little bit more about how to work with data in React and understand how it flows in React applications. That’s what this chapter is about.

3.1. Introducing state

Chapter 2 gave you a few ...

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