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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase
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Serverless Web Applications with React and Firebase

by Mayur Tanna, Harmeet Singh
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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JSX components

JSX is nothing, but, in simple words, it is just an extension of JavaScript syntax. Also, if you observe the syntax or structure of JSX, you will find that it's similar to XML coding. JSX is doing preprocessor footstep, which adds XML syntax to JavaScript. Though you can certainly use React without JSX, JSX makes react a lot more neat and elegant. Similar to XML, JSX tags are having tag name, attributes, and children and, in that, if an attribute value is enclosed in quotes, that value becomes a string.

JSX works similar to XML, with balanced opening and closing tags, and it helps make large trees at ease to read than “function calls” or “object literals”.

Advantages of using JSX in React:

  • JSX is very simple to understand ...
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