React.createClass ReactClass createClass(object specification) Create a component class, given a specification. A component implements a render method which returns one single child. That child may have an arbitrarily deep child structure. One thing that makes components different than standard prototypal classes is that you don't need to call new on them. They are convenience wrappers that construct backing instances (via new) for you. For more information about the specification object, see

React provides a ReactTransitionGroup add-on component as a low-level API for animation, and a ReactCSSTransitionGroup for easily implementing basic CSS animations and transitions. High-level API: ReactCSSTransitionGroup ReactCSSTransitionGroup is based on ReactTransitionGroup and is an easy way to perform CSS transitions and animations when a React component enters or leaves the DOM. It's inspired by the excellent ng-animate library. Getting Started ReactCSSTransitionGroup is the interface

ReactDOM.findDOMNode DOMElement findDOMNode(ReactComponent component) If this component has been mounted into the DOM, this returns the corresponding native browser DOM element. This method is useful for reading values out of the DOM, such as form field values and performing DOM measurements. In most cases, you can attach a ref to the DOM node and avoid using findDOMNode at all. When render returns null or false, findDOMNode returns null. findDOMNode() is an escape hatch used to access the

replaceState void replaceState( object nextState, [function callback] ) Like setState() but deletes any pre-existing state keys that are not in nextState. This method is not available on ES6 class components that extend React.Component. It may be removed entirely in a future version of React.

by Pete Hunt React is, in my opinion, the premier way to build big, fast Web apps with JavaScript. It has scaled very well for us at Facebook and Instagram. One of the many great parts of React is how it makes you think about apps as you build them. In this post, I'll walk you through the thought process of building a searchable product data table using React. Start with a mock Imagine that we already have a JSON API and a mock from our designer. Our designer apparently isn't very good becaus

ReactDOMServer.renderToString string renderToString(ReactElement element) Render a ReactElement to its initial HTML. This should only be used on the server. React will return an HTML string. You can use this method to generate HTML on the server and send the markup down on the initial request for faster page loads and to allow search engines to crawl your pages for SEO purposes. If you call ReactDOM.render() on a node that already has this server-rendered markup, React will preserve it and on

Updating: componentWillUpdate void componentWillUpdate( object nextProps, object nextState ) Invoked immediately before rendering when new props or state are being received. This method is not called for the initial render. Use this as an opportunity to perform preparation before an update occurs. You cannot use this.setState() in this method. If you need to update state in response to a prop change, use componentWillReceiveProps instead.

After building your component, you may find yourself wanting to "reach out" and invoke methods on component instances returned from render(). In most cases, this should be unnecessary because the reactive data flow always ensures that the most recent props are sent to each child that is output from render(). However, there are a few cases where it still might be necessary or beneficial, so React provides an escape hatch known as refs. These refs (references) are especially useful when you need

One of the first questions people ask when considering React for a project is whether their application will be as fast and responsive as an equivalent non-React version. The idea of re-rendering an entire subtree of components in response to every state change makes people wonder whether this process negatively impacts performance. React uses several clever techniques to minimize the number of costly DOM operations required to update the UI. Avoiding reconciling the DOM React makes use of a

React React is the entry point to the React library. If you're using one of the prebuilt packages it's available as a global; if you're using CommonJS modules you can require() it. React.Component class Component This is the base class for React Components when they're defined using ES6 classes. See Reusable Components for how to use ES6 classes with React. For what methods are actually provided by the base class, see the Component API. React.createClass ReactClass createClass(object spe