React Tutorial

React Tutorial

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1. Getting Started

The prompt provides a list of terms that are commonly used in React, a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The terms include React, component, virtual DOM, JSX, constructor() method, render() method, state, setState() method, props, and binding methods. The prompt does not provide any additional context or information about these terms.

What is a Component?

State and setState()

Props (properties)

Binding Methods

2. Lifecycle Methods

Now that we have become familiar with most of the React basics and how components work and integrate into the development of a website. Since we know that React components are loaded onto the main page and then can be dynamically updated which means that they go through a certain cycle of stages that can be intervened in and the behavior can be updated. This cycle can be manipulated through what are called lifecycle functions at different stages. React class component lifecycle methods are used for a variety of purposes, including performing setup tasks when a component is first rendered, updating a component in response to changes in props or state, and cleaning up any resources that the component is using.

componentWillMount()

componentWillUnmount()

componentDidMount()

shouldComponentUpdate()

componentDidUpdate()

componentDidCatch()

Overview of Component Lifecycle

3. Functional Components and Hooks

Now that we have gone over the basics of class-based components, we will now explore a better and more concise way to write React components with functional components which are a lot more commonly used in React these days. Functional components are a way to define components in React that are simple, lightweight, and only consist of a render function. They are a great choice for simple, presentational components that only need to render some JSX and don't have their own state or lifecycle methods. In this section of the course, we'll look at how to use functional components with Hooks to manage state and other lifecycle events.

What is a Hook?

4. Advanced Topics

Now, we understand the basics of React with regards to the various kinds of components available and how to use them and exploit their lifecycle to our advantage in a webpage, we will now move on to some advanced topics. These topics will deal with topics like state management through Context API and the Consumer and Provider architecture in React and how these things make life easier in a production-level React App. Then we will move onto Routing in react and how it all works to produce a navigable React App without having to reload the page. This involves studying an important React package called “react-router-dom” which we will get into in this section.

React Router Dom

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React Tutorial

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Props (properties)

In React, props (short for "properties") are a way to pass data from a parent component to a child component. Props are essentially pieces of information that the parent component passes to the child component, and they can be used by the child component to render dynamic content.

To illustrate this, let's consider the following example:

In this example, the ParentComponent is passing two props to the ChildComponent: a name prop with the value "John" and an age prop with the value 25. The ChildComponent can then access these props and use them to render dynamic content. For example:

In this example, the ChildComponent is using the name and age props that were passed to it by the ParentComponent to render a dynamic message.

To summarize, props in React allow you to pass data from a parent component to a child component, and they can be used by the child component to render dynamic content. This is an important concept to understand when working with React, as it allows you to create reusable components that can be easily customized with different data.

Here are a few key points to remember about props in React:

Props are passed from a parent component to a child component. This means that the parent component is responsible for defining the props, and the child component is responsible for using them.
Props are a way to pass information from a parent component to a child component. This allows the child component to render dynamic content based on the data that is passed to it.
Props are essentially objects that contain key-value pairs. The keys are the names of the props, and the values are the data that is passed to the child component.
Props are accessed in a child component using the this.props syntax. For example, if a prop named name was passed to a child component, you could access its value using this.props.name.
Props are read-only, which means that a child component cannot modify the props that are passed to it. This helps to ensure that components are always predictable and easy to understand.

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