Understanding React Concepts - Part II Overview

In This Session

Session 2 (Understanding React Concepts - Part I) and Session 3 (Understanding React Concepts - Part II) are aimed at introducing to you all the basic concepts of React. These concepts will serve as the foundation of your learning process of React. While learning these concepts, you will build a Phone Directory application with the functionalities of adding a subscriber, deleting a subscriber, and showing all subscribers' details. With every React concept that we teach here, we’ll show you how to apply it in this application. This will help you learn as well as implement React on the fly. Thus, both these sessions will walk you through the concepts of React using practical examples aimed at eventually building this application. By the end of these two sessions, you’ll have a good understanding of React and you will have also built a beautiful Phone Directory application.

Particularly, in this session, you will learn the following concepts in React and implement the same inside this application:

• Props
• Event handling
• State
• Component Lifecycle
• Smart vs Dumb Components
• Routing

You will also develop some more functionalities inside your Phone Directory application such as adding and deleting a subscribers's details.

People You Will Hear From In This Session

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Shilpa Bhat

Shilpa is a senior software development professional, based out of Bangalore, India. She has over 17 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. She has worked with a wide range of back-end and front-end technologies such as SQLServer, MongoDB, Firebase, Node.js, ReactJS, and Angular. Currently, she is working as a UI Architect for a cutting-edge IoT firm.