The React Workshop

2. Dealing with React Events

Overview

This chapter will provide you the knowledge about hooking JavaScript events in React applications. You will be able to identify best practices for wiring JavaScript events to component functions; you will get to practice binding JavaScript events to React framework through multiple hands-on approaches; and use alternate component declaration syntax to minimize bind issues.

Introduction – Talking to JavaScript with React

In the previous chapter, we designed our first standalone basic React application. The React framework allows you to create rich interactive web applications where users expect an interface that responds quickly to their actions. Often, when you are designing such interactive web applications, ...