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React 16 Essentials

You're reading from   React 16 Essentials A fast-paced, hands-on guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React 16

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787126046
Length 240 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Christopher Pitt Christopher Pitt
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Preface 1. What's New in React 16 FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Powerful Tools for Your Project 3. Creating Your First React Element 4. Creating Your First React Component 5. Making Your React Components Reactive 6. Using Your React Components with Another Library 7. Updating Your React Components 8. Building Complex React Components 9. Testing Your React Application with Jest 10. Supercharging Your React Architecture with Flux 11. Preparing Your React Application for Painless Maintenance with Flux 12. Refining Your Flux Apps with Redux Index

Rendering React elements

The ReactDOM.render() method takes three parameters: ReactElement, a regular DOMElement container, and a callback function:

ReactDOM.render(ReactElement, DOMElement, callback);

A ReactElement type is a root element in the tree of ReactNode that you've created. A regular DOMElement parameter is a container DOM node for that tree. The callback parameter is a function executed after the tree is rendered or updated. It's important to note that if this ReactElement type was previously rendered to a parent DOMElement container, then ReactDOM.render() will perform an update on the already rendered DOM tree and only mutate the DOM, as it is necessary to reflect the latest version of the ReactElement type. This is why a virtual DOM requires fewer DOM mutations.

So far, we've assumed that we're always creating our virtual DOM in a web browser. This is understandable because, after all, React is a user interface library, and all user interfaces are rendered...

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