When React was first introduced, one of the features that caught most people’s attention (and drew the most criticism) was JSX. If you’re learning React, or have ever seen any code examples, you probably did a double-take at the syntax. What is this strange amalgamation of HTML and JavaScript? Is this even ...
In this guide, I’ll show you the fundamental concepts of React by taking you through a practical, step-by-step tutorial on how to create a simple Message App using React. I’ll assume you have no previous knowledge of React. However, you’ll need at least to be familiar with modern JavaScript and NodeJS...
This is a follow up to the CSS-Tricks Article Intro to Firebase and React. In that lesson, we built Fun Food Friends, an application for planning your next potluck. It looked like this:If you haven’t completed that article yet, please complete that article first before attempting this one – it builds on t...
This article was updated on 16th April, 2016. Specifically: installation instructions, code samples, ES5/ES6 syntax, precompiling JSX. React is an open source library for building user interfaces. It lets you create views easily while making sure your UI stays in sync with the underlying data model. This article, targe...
This tutorial is the second of a three-part series on React by Brad Westfall. This series is all about going beyond basic React skills and building bigger things, like entire Single Page Applications (SPAs). This article picks up where the last article, on React Router, left off.Article Series Part 1: React Router P...
If you’re thinking of using React but are overwhelmed by the number of resources, have given up resisting the noise, or just want to keep abreast of the state of things, read on. If you already use React, hate React, still want to resist React…read on anyway for cliff notes on this weekend’s gathering. A ...
In SitePoint’s forums I stumbled across a thread entitled So Many Frameworks where Guido, confused at the sheer number of options available, was asking which JavaScript framework he should adopt to make his application more dynamic. Given what I’ve been seeing in the industry and having used it myself, I st...
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