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The React Workshop

You're reading from   The React Workshop Get started with building web applications using practical tips and examples from React use cases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838645564
Length 806 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Florian Sloot Florian Sloot
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Ryan Yu Ryan Yu
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Brandon Richey Brandon Richey
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Endre Vegh Endre Vegh
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 Theofanis Despoudis Theofanis Despoudis
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Anton Punith Anton Punith
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Getting Started with React 2. Dealing with React Events FREE CHAPTER 3. Conditional Rendering and for Loops 4. React Lifecycle Methods 5. Class and Function Components 6. State and Props 7. Communication between Components 8. Introduction to Formik 9. Introduction to React Router 10. Advanced Routing Techniques: Special Cases 11. Hooks – Reusability, Readability, and a Different Mental Model 12. State Management with Hooks 13. Composing Hooks to Solve Complex Problems 14. Fetching Data by Making API Requests 15. Promise API and async/await 16. Fetching Data on Initial Render and Refactoring with Hooks 17. Refs in React 18. Practical Use Cases of Refs Appendix

React Hooks to Fetch Data

  1. We have learned about the life cycle methods we need to use for fetching data and how to fix the infinite loop when updating the state in the componentDidUpdate() method.

    In early 2019, React 16.8 was released with a stable release of React Hooks. As we discussed in the Chapter 15, Promise API and async/await.

    React Hooks allows us to use state and other features in the function components without writing a class. In this section, we are going to learn how to use React Hooks to refactor what we have done in the previous sections, such as fetching data or updating the state by clicking on either the Popularity or Trending buttons.

    In the class-based components, we have used the componentDidMount() method to initially fetch data, and the componentDidUpdate() method to re-fetch data upon re-rendering. To avoid the infinite loop, we used prevProps to compare whether the previous prop is the same as the current prop.

    With useEffect, we can do both initial requests and...

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