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ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React

You're reading from   ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React Building Modern Web Applications with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289644
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vipul A M Vipul A M
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with React FREE CHAPTER 2. JSX in Depth 3. Data Flow and Life Cycle Events 4. Composite Dynamic Components and Forms 5. Mixins and the DOM 6. React on the Server 7. React Addons 8. Performance of React Apps 9. React Router and Data Models 10. Animation 11. React Tools 12. Flux 13. Redux and React Index

JavaScript expressions


"Shawn, let's discuss a bit about how we have rendered the Rows and Headings tag."

render: function() {
    var headings = this.props.headings.map(function(name) {
      return(<Heading heading = {name}/>);
    });

   return <tr>{headings}</tr>;
  }

"We are rendering {headings}, which is a list of React components, directly by adding them in curly braces as children of the <tr> tag. These expressions that are used to specify the child components are called child expressions."

"There is another category of expressions called as JavaScript expressions. These are simple expressions used for passing props or evaluating some JavaScript code that can be used as an attribute value."

// Passing props as expressions
ReactDOM.render(<App headings = {['When', 'Who', 'Description']} 
                  data = {data} />, 
                document.getElementById('container'));

// Evaluating expressions
ReactDOM.render(<App headings = {['When', 'Who...
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