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MobX Quick Start Guide

You're reading from MobX Quick Start Guide Supercharge the client state in your React apps with MobX

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789344837

Length 236 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

MobX

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Authors (2):

Podila

Weststrate

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to State Management FREE CHAPTER

2. Observables, Actions, and Reactions

3. A React App with MobX

4. Crafting the Observable Tree

5. Derivations, Actions, and Reactions

6. Handling Real-World Use Cases

7. Special API for Special Cases

8. Exploring mobx-utils and mobx-state-tree

9. Mobx Internals

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Summary

In this chapter, we applied a variety of techniques and concepts that we have learned over the last few chapters. Each of the two examples, form validation and page routing, presented a unique set of approaches for modeling the observable state. We also saw how to create granular observer components to enable efficient rendering of the React components.

A practical application of MobX always starts with modeling the observable state. After all, that is the data that drives the UI. The next step is to identify the actions that mutate the observables. Finally, you need to call out the side-effects and see which observables these effects depend on. This is the side effect model that's applied to real-world scenarios, manifesting in the form of the MobX triad: Observables-Actions-Reactions.

With all of the knowledge we have accumulated so far, we are now ready to go deeper into MobX, starting with Chapter 7, Special API for Special Cases.

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Authors (2)

Podila

Podila

Pavan Podila has been building frontend applications since 2001 and has used a variety of tools, technologies, and platforms, from Java Swing, WPF with .Net/C#, Cocoa on macOS and iOS, to the web platform with frameworks like React and Angular. He has been working with React since 2013 and MobX since 2016. He is a colead of the Interactive Practice at Publicis.Sapient, where he builds large financial apps for web and mobile platforms. Earlier, he was a Microsoft MVP for client application development (2008-2011), a published author of WPF Control Development Unleashed (Addison-Wesley). He created QuickLens, a Mac App for UI designers/developers, and authored several articles and video courses on Tuts+. Pavan is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for web technologies and currently authors courses on The UI Dev. He is a regular speaker at meetups, conferences, and workshops. When time permits, you can find him sketching on iPad or playing Ping-Pong.

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Weststrate

Weststrate

Michel Weststrate (Msc) is tech lead and open source evangelist at Mendix. He has been active as both a frontend and backend developer in different stacks. An occasional speaker at software conferences, he has authored video courses on egghead. Intrigued by several (transparent) reactive programming libraries, he researched and worked on making the ReactJS framework more reactive while addressing predictability and maintainability constraints in other solutions. This led to mobservable (nowadays MobX), which was quickly adopted at Mendix. He's very active in the open source software community, and he authored MobX, Immer, and several small libraries, and coauthored MobX-state-tree.

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