Building User Interfaces for Modern Web Applications: React Programming

by Cheer-Sun Yang, Ph.D.

Keywords: Web Programming, Front-End User-Interface (UI) Technology, React Programming
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About the Book

Since Facebook released React as an open-source software library for front-end programming in 2013, React has gain popularity quickly. Although there are other frameworks or libraries, React is considered a programmer-friendly JavaScript library using the functional programming approach for the front-end web application development. Teaching and learning React can provide training in Functional Programming, Software Engineering Principles, and the Event-Driven Programming Paradigm. The ultimate goal of this eTextbook is to provide a timely support for teaching the state-of-the-art technology as the React ecosystem evolves.

In this eTextbook, the prerequisite concepts about HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap/React-Bootstrap are introduced first, followed by the main React language features. Finally, the Software Engineering Principles are introduced from the design, development, to debugging and maintenance. The main objectives are threefold: (1) provide concepts about JavaScript Programming, (2) introduce the concepts of modularity, functional programming, and (3) teach the concept of reusable User Interface (UI) as the front-end of modern model-view-controller (MVC) web applications.

Although learning other technologies in the React ecosystem is imminent, it is the hope that this book paves the groundwork for the future learning and growing in the field of modern UI development.

Chapters

  1. Introduction and Set up
  2. HyperText Markup Language
  3. Cascading Style Sheets & Bootstrap
  4. JavaScript & JSX
  5. React Components
  6. Properties (Props)
  7. State
  8. Events
  9. Component Lifecycle & Reconciliation
  10. Conditional Rendering
  11. Lists
  12. Forms
  13. Lifting Up State
  14. Think in React
  15. React Routing
  16. Redux State Management

General Information

  • Publication Year: 2024
  • Edition: First
  • Subject: Computers & Technology

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Citations

MLA: Yang, Cheer-Sun. Building User Interfaces for Modern Web Applications: React Programming. First, The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT), 2024.

APA: Yang, C. (2024). Building User Interfaces for Modern Web Applications: React Programming. (First). The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT).

Chicago: Yang, Cheer-Sun. Building User Interfaces for Modern Web Applications: React Programming. First. The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT), 2024. 

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