Chapter 4. Making React interactive with states
This chapter covers
- Understanding React component states
- Working with states
- States versus properties
- Stateful versus stateless components
If you read only one chapter in this book, this should be it! Without states, your React components are just glorified static templates. I hope you’re as excited as I am, because understanding the concepts in this chapter will allow you to build much more interesting applications.
Imagine that you’re building an autocomplete input field (see figure 4.1). When you type in it, you want to make a request to the server to fetch information about matches to show on the web page. So far, you’ve worked with properties, and you’ve learned that by changing properties, ...
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