React in Action

Part 2. Components and data in React

In part 1, you looked at React at a high level, took a whirlwind tour through some of its APIs, and built a handful of components. Hopefully this gave you a better overall sense of what React is and how it works as a technology. But a quick tour won’t allow you to take full advantage of React so you can build robust, dynamic user interfaces with it.

That’s where part 2 comes in. In part 2, you’ll start to explore React more thoroughly and take a careful look at its APIs. We’ll look at how you can create components and some of the different types of components that you can create. In chapter 3, we’ll look at how data flows through a React application. This will help you understand how React works with data ...