• ReactJS
  • What's ReactJS
  • Creating ReactJS Project - Run the App in Developement Mode - Building app for production
  • React Component and Props
    • What's React Component
    • Creating React Functional Component
    • React Component Rules
    • Stateless Functional Components
    • Stateful Components
    • JSX
    • Render Dynamic Content Inside Component
    • Event Handling - HTML Example - React Example
    • Forms
  • React Hooks
    • Rules of Hooks
• Javascript for ReactJS
  • Arrow Function
  • Destructuring Assignment
    • Array Destructuring
    • Examples
      • Basic variable assignment
      • Assignment separate from declaration
      • Default values
      • Swapping variables
      • Parsing an array returned from a function OR Parsing an array to a function.
      • Ignoring some returned values
      • Assigning the rest of an array to a variable
      • Unpacking values from a regular expression match
    • Object Destructuring
      • Basic assignment
      • Assignment separate from declaration
      • Assigning to new variable names
      • Default values
      • Assigning to new variable names and providing default values
      • Unpacking properties from objects passed as a function parameter
      • Setting a function parameter's default value
      • Nested object and array destructuring
      • Computed object property names and destructuring
      • Rest in Object Destructuring
      • Invalid JavaScript identifier as a property name
      • Combined Array and Object Destructuring
      • The prototype chain is looked up when the object is deconstructed
  • Spread Operator Syntax (...)
  • Classes
    • Class Declarations Syntax
    • Class Expressions Syntax
  • ES/JS Modules
    • Exporting Module Feature
    • Importing Module Feature
    • Renaming imports and exports
      • Export Example
      • Import Example
    • Creating a module object
  • Exporting Classes From a Module
    • Class Export Syntax
    • Class import and usage syntax
• References
  • ReactJS
  • JS

ReactJS

What's ReactJS

ReactJS is a library to make UI. Nothing more!

Creating ReactJS Project

npx create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

Run the App in Developement Mode

npm start

• Runs the app in the development mode.
• By default, the application runs in localhost port 3000 with the address http://localhost:3000.

Building app for production

npm run build

• Builds the app for production to the build folder.
• It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

React Component and Props

What's React Component

• Components let you split the UI into independent, reusable pieces, and think about each piece in isolation.
• Components are like JavaScript functions.
• They accept arbitrary inputs (called props) and return React elements describing what should appear on the screen.

Creating React Functional Component

• We call such components function components because they are literally JavaScript functions.

function Welcome(props) {
  return <h1>Hello, {props.name}</h1>;
}

Arrow Function Component Syntax

const Welcome = props => <h1>Hello, {props.name}</h1>

ES6 Class Syntax

class Welcome extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <h1>Hello, {this.props.name}</h1>;
  }
}

React Component Rules

1. Component name must start with a capital letter.

React treats components starting with lowercase letters as DOM tags. For example, <div /> represents an HTML div tag, but <Welcome /> represents a component

2. Always close the tag for React components e.g;

<Welcome>OR</Welcome>
<Welcome /> 

3. Use camelCase for HTML attributes.

<Welcome onClick="" />

4. Use className attribute instead of class attribute for CSS class selector.

<Welcome className="" />

5. Component must have a root element. It can be a div or Fragment <>

Stateless Functional Components

Stateful Components

JSX

Render Dynamic Content Inside Component

Event Handling

Event handling of React Elements is the same as DOM elements with following syntax differences.

1. React events are named using camelCase, rather than lowercase.
2. With JSX, you pass a function as the event handler, rather than a string.

HTML Example

<button onclick="activateLasers()">
  Activate Lasers
</button>

React Example

<button onClick={activateLasers}>
  Activate Lasers
</button>

Other differences are

• An event handler is supposed to be either a function or a function reference.

<button onClick={activateLasers}>
  Activate Lasers
</button>

<button onClick={() => { console.log('Hello World') }}>
  Activate Lasers
</button>

• You cannot return false to prevent default behavior in React. You must call preventDefault explicitly.

Forms

React Hooks

Before learning about hooks, make sure you understand the concept of Destructing Assignment Syntax

• Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8.
• They let you use state and other React features without writing a class.
• Hooks are functions that let you hook into React state and lifecycle features from function components.
• React provides a few built-in Hooks like useState.
• You can also create your own Hooks to reuse stateful behavior between different components.

Rules of Hooks

Hooks are JavaScript functions, but they impose two additional rules

• Only call Hooks at the top level. Don’t call Hooks inside loops, conditions, or nested functions.
• Only call Hooks from React function components or custom hooks. Don’t call Hooks from regular JavaScript functions.

const App = () => {
  // these are ok
  const [age, setAge] = useState(0)
  const [name, setName] = useState('Juha Tauriainen')

  // Conditiona Example: this does not work!
  if ( age > 10 ) {
    const [foobar, setFoobar] = useState(null)
  }

  // Loop Example: Not good
  for ( let i = 0; i < age; i++ ) {
    const [rightWay, setRightWay] = useState(false)
  }

  // Nested Function: this is also illegal
  const notGood = () => {
    const [x, setX] = useState(-1000)
  }

  return (
    //...
  )
}

Javascript for ReactJS

Arrow Function

• It has a shorter syntax than the standard function.

• It does not bind their own this.

• Arrow functions are best suited for non-method functions.

Example Syntax

(param1, param2) => { statements }

If the function has only one param, you can emit the () around the paramters and if it has only one statment in the method, you can emit {} in method body. And when you don't put {} brances, it will return that expression result.

param => statment
(param) => {return statmenet }

// Above 2 functions are equal.

If there is no parameter required for a function, () is required.

() => statmenet
() => { expressions }
() => { return expression }

Example Methods

const multiply = (x*y) => { return x*y }
const multiply = (x*y) =>  return x*y 

Destructuring Assignment

The destructuring assignment syntax is a JavaScript expression that makes it possible to unpack values from arrays, or properties from objects, into distinct variables.

Array Destructuring

• Imagine you have an array and you would like to assign each item from an array to local variables.

• The destructuring assignment uses similar syntax, but on the left-hand side of the assignment to define what values to unpack from the sourced variable.

• In the destructuring assignment, each index on the left-hand side correspond to respective index in an array on right-hand side of assignment.

const [firstElement, secondElement] = list;
// is equivalent to:
// const firstElement = list[0];
// const secondElement = list[1];

Examples

Basic variable assignment

const x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
const [y, z] = x;
console.log(y); // 1
console.log(z); // 2

Assignment separate from declaration

let a, b;

[a, b] = [1, 2];
console.log(a); // 1
console.log(b); // 2

If an array has N elements and the number of variables specified on the left-hand side of the assignment is greater than N, only the first N variables are assigned values.

const foo = ['one', 'two'];

const [red, yellow, green, blue] = foo;
console.log(red); // "one"
console.log(yellow); // "two"
console.log(green); // undefined
console.log(blue);  //undefined

Default values

A variable can be assigned a default, in the case that the value unpacked from the array might be undefined.

let a, b;

[a=5, b=7] = [1];
console.log(a); // 1
console.log(b); // 7

Swapping variables

let a = 1;
let b = 3;

[a, b] = [b, a];
console.log(a); // 3
console.log(b); // 1

Parsing an array returned from a function OR Parsing an array to a function.

Destructuring can make working with an array return from a function or passsing to a function more concise.

function f() {
  return [1, 2];
}

let a, b;
[a, b] = f();
console.log(a); // 1
console.log(b); // 2

function f([a,b]) {
  console.log(a); // 1
  console.log(b); // 2
}
f([1,2]);

Ignoring some returned values

You can ignore return values that you're not interested in.

function f() {
  return [1, 2, 3];
}

const [a, , b] = f();
console.log(a); // 1
console.log(b); // 3

You can also ignore all returned values.

[,,] = f();

Assigning the rest of an array to a variable

When destructuring an array, you can unpack and assign the remaining part of it to a variable using the rest pattern:

const [a, ...b] = [1, 2, 3];
console.log(a); // 1
console.log(b); // [2, 3]

Unpacking values from a regular expression match

Object Destructuring

Basic assignment

const user = {
    id: 42,
    isVerified: true
};

const {id, isVerified} = user;

console.log(id); // 42
console.log(isVerified); // true

Assignment separate from declaration

let a, b;

({a, b} = {a: 1, b: 2});

The parentheses ( ... ) around the assignment statement are required when using object literal destructuring assignment without a declaration.

Assigning to new variable names

const o = {p: 42, q: true};
const {p: foo, q: bar} = o;

console.log(foo); // 42
console.log(bar); // true

const {p: foo} = o takes from the object o the property named p and assigns it to a local variable named foo.

Default values

A variable can be assigned a default, in the case that the value unpacked from the object is undefined.

const {a = 10, b = 5} = {a: 3};

console.log(a); // 3
console.log(b); // 5

Assigning to new variable names and providing default values

Unpacking properties from objects passed as a function parameter

Setting a function parameter's default value

Nested object and array destructuring

Computed object property names and destructuring

Rest in Object Destructuring

Invalid JavaScript identifier as a property name

Combined Array and Object Destructuring

The prototype chain is looked up when the object is deconstructed

Spread Operator Syntax (...)

The JavaScript spread operator (...) allows us to quickly copy all or part of an existing array or object into another array or object.

const numbersOne = [1, 2, 3];
const numbersTwo = [4, 5, 6];
const numbersCombined = [...numbersOne, ...numbersTwo];

// Output = [1,2,3,4,5,6]

The spread operator is often used in combination with destructuring.

const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];

const [one, two, ...rest] = numbers;

// one = 1
// two = 2
// rest = 3,4,5,6

We can use the spread operator with objects too. Below is an example of how we can combine 2 objects.

const myVehicle = {
  brand: 'Ford',
  model: 'Mustang',
  color: 'red'
}

const updateMyVehicle = {
  type: 'car',
  year: 2021, 
  color: 'yellow'
}

const myUpdatedVehicle = {...myVehicle, ...updateMyVehicle}

// Output object will be like this

{
  brand: 'Ford',
  model: 'Mustang',
  color: 'yellow',
  type: 'car',
  year: 2021, 
}

Classes

Class Declarations Syntax

• To declare a class, you use the class keyword with the name of the class.

class Rectangle {
  constructor(height, width) {
    this.height = height;
    this.width = width;
  }
}

Class Expressions Syntax

// unnamed
let Rectangle = class {
  constructor(height, width) {
    this.height = height;
    this.width = width;
  }
};
console.log(Rectangle.name);
// output: "Rectangle"

// named
let Rectangle = class Rectangle2 {
  constructor(height, width) {
    this.height = height;
    this.width = width;
  }
};
console.log(Rectangle.name);
// output: "Rectangle2"

ES/JS Modules

• In programming, you try to break down your problems into small chunks and spread them over multiple files so that you can share them across projects and within projects.

• In js, when you create a file, it's called a module.

• To use functions, classes, variables, and constants in other files, you need to know how to export them so that other modules can import them and use them.

Exporting Module Feature

• You can export functions, var, let, const, and classes.

• You put the export keyword before the functions, var, let, const and classes.

• You can't use export inside a function.

• A more convenient way of exporting all the items you want to export is to use a single export statement at the end of your module file, followed by a comma-separated list of the features you want to export wrapped in curly braces

export const name = 'square'; // Constant

export function draw() {} // Function

export { name, draw, reportArea, reportPerimeter }; // more convenient syntax at the end of file

• Above method of exporting is called named exports.

• We have another method of exporting, called default export and below is the example syntax. Note the lack of curly braces.

• Only one default export allowed per module.

export default randomSquare;
export default function(ctx) { }

Importing Module Feature

• Once you've exported some features out of your module, you need to import them where you wanted to use them.

• You cannot change the variable that was imported, but you can still modify properties similar to const.

• To import, you use the import statement, followed by a comma-separated list of the features you want to import wrapped in curly braces, followed by the keyword from, followed by the path to the module file.

import { name, draw, reportArea, reportPerimeter } from './modules/square.js';

• Importing default export modules syntax.

• Note the lack of curly braces. This is because there is only one default export allowed per module.

import randomSquare from './modules/square.js';
import {default as randomSquare} from './modules/square.js';   // expanded version of above line

Renaming imports and exports

• Inside your import and export statement's curly braces, you can use the keyword as along with a new feature name, to change the identifying name you will use for a feature inside the top-level module.

• You need this feature because it's possible that more than 1 module exported with the same name.

• Since you can't change the module of the third party, it's generally a good idea not to change the name of your own modules too and change names on the import side.

Export Example

// inside module.js
export {
  function1 as newFunctionName,
  function2 as anotherNewFunctionName
};

// inside main.js
import { newFunctionName, anotherNewFunctionName } from './modules/module.js';

Import Example

// inside module.js
export { function1, function2 };

// inside main.js
import { function1 as newFunctionName,
         function2 as anotherNewFunctionName } from './modules/module.js';

Creating a module object

• So far, when we import from a module, we import individual items from a module and use them e.g;

import { name, draw, reportArea, reportPerimeter } from './canvas.js';

name();

• Instead of importing all of them individually, you can import all of them in an object and then use feature of a module as functions or variables of a given object.

import * as Canvas from './canvas.js';
Canvas.name()

Exporting Classes From a Module

Class Export Syntax

class Square {
  constructor(ctx, listId, length, x, y, color) { }

  draw() { }
  
}

export { Square };

Class import and usage syntax

import { Square } from './square.js';

let square1 = new Square(myCanvas.ctx, myCanvas.listId, 50, 50, 100, 'blue');
square1.draw();
square1.reportArea();
square1.reportPerimeter();

References

ReactJS

• FullStackOpen - The University of Helsinki
• FullStackOpen Exercise Submission System
• Clever Programmer
• freeCodeCamp.org
• Coding Addict
• w3schools | Reactjs
• JavaScriptMastery

JS

• freeCodeCamp.org | Arrow Functions
• Fireship | JS Destructuring in 100 Seconds
• Coding Addict | Javascript Fundamentals
• SFDCFacts Academy | Modern JS Crash Course | The Ultimate Hands-On JavaScript Tutorial 2021 | Learn JS in 3 hour
• Exploring ES6 | Book
• Hoisting
• Classes