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Node.js Design Patterns

You're reading from   Node.js Design Patterns Design and implement production-grade Node.js applications using proven patterns and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214110
Length 664 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Luciano Mammino Luciano Mammino
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Mario Casciaro Mario Casciaro
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Preface 1. The Node.js Platform 2. The Module System FREE CHAPTER 3. Callbacks and Events 4. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns with Callbacks 5. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns with Promises and Async/Await 6. Coding with Streams 7. Creational Design Patterns 8. Structural Design Patterns 9. Behavioral Design Patterns 10. Universal JavaScript for Web Applications 11. Advanced Recipes 12. Scalability and Architectural Patterns 13. Messaging and Integration Patterns 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

A brief introduction to React

React is a popular JavaScript library created and maintained by Facebook. React is focused on providing a comprehensive set of functions and tools to build the view layer in web applications. React offers a view abstraction focused on the concept of a component. A component could be a button, a form input, a simple container such as an HTML div, or any other element in your user interface. The idea is that you should be able to construct the user interface of your application by just defining and composing highly reusable components with specific responsibilities.

What makes React different from other view libraries for the web is that it is not bound to the DOM by design. In fact, it provides a high-level abstraction called the virtual DOM (nodejsdp.link/virtual-dom) that fits very well with the web but that can also be used in other contexts, for example, for building mobile apps, modeling 3D environments, or even defining the interaction between...

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