ReacJS Introduction
ReacJS Introduction
Declarative
React makes it painless to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your
application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your
data changes.
Declarative views make your code more predictable and easier to debug.
Component-Based
Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make
complex UIs.
Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data
through your app and keep state out of the DOM.
We don’t make assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, so you can develop new
features in React without rewriting existing code.
React can also render on the server using Node and power mobile apps using React Native.
A Simple Component
React components implement a render() method that takes input data
and returns what to display. This example uses an XML-like syntax called
JSX. Input data that is passed into the component can be accessed
by render() via this.props.
JSX is optional and not required to use React. Try the Babel REPL to see
the raw JavaScript code produced by the JSX compilation step.
A Stateful Component
In addition to taking input data (accessed via this.props), a component
can maintain internal state data (accessed via this.state). When a
component’s state data changes, the rendered markup will be updated by
re-invoking render().
An Application
Using props and state, we can put together a small Todo application. This
example uses state to track the current list of items as well as the text that
the user has entered. Although event handlers appear to be rendered inline,
they will be collected and implemented using event delegation.