The competition among frontend frameworks

 Frontend frameworks for desktop and responsive on other devices can be categorized in 5 main types:

• Angular
• ReactJS/Nextjs
• VueJS
• Classic (html, css, jquery, thymeleaf, asp.net)
• Flutter Web
  

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Add Redux lifestyle into Angular's Reactive State Management

If you are java developer and you are not good at design and frontend skill but you want to develop a java web application using microservices style, Angular is the best choice as front-end framework for you. Angular is like java Wicket framework. Both use real html DOM in markup file so that It is easy to incorporate with cut-css/html frontend developer to make a target ui page.
Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps and Redux was designed for React.
There are several ways to use Redux or create a Redux-inspired system that works with Angular. We can use Redux directly in order to show the concepts without introducing a new dependency (pure redux). But Angular also has state container by supporting from popular state management frameworks: angular-redux, ngrx, ngxs, akita

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Getting started with React Native and Redux

This article is a simple step-by-step of how to start a project with React Native and Redux.

Source Code (Branch init)

Create-react-native-app

Following the path of its excellent web brother, I recommend the use of the create-react-native-app to bootstrap your new project. This one configures all the build tools necessary to create a React Native app, and gives you some excellent Expo integrations.

First thing to do is to install CLI tool with

npm install -g create-react-native-app

Now, run the following command with the name you want to give to your project

react-native init my_awesome_app

Go forward to the new folder, and run

react-native run-android

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Spring Boot + React Redux and MySQL CRUD example

This article will build React Redux Http Client & Spring Boot Server example that uses Spring Data JPA to interact with MySQL database and React as a front-end technology to make request and receive response.
Technologies
– Java 1.8
– Maven 3.3.9
– Spring Tool Suite 3.9.0.RELEASE
– Spring Boot 2.0.1.RELEASE
– Webpack 4.4.1
– React 16.3.0
– Redux 3.7.2
– React Redux 5.0.7
– axios 0.18.0
– MySQL 5.7.16

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Devstack download: migrating from JSF to ReactJS

At Bandwidth, our UI front end was originally written using JSF (java server faces). This made sense at the time because we had a lot of Java developers and it was easier for them to work with. As time moved on and we expanded our team we got more front-end developers on board. They were pushing for a more modern front end stack that will help improve efficiency for front-end development. That is how we ended up deciding to use ReactJs.
I think one of the trickiest parts of the change was deciding how to go about it. It takes a lot of time and effort to make the change and we had to convince everyone that it would be worth it. Since there was already a movement to revamp our signup process, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to write that using ReactJs and Redux. It also had the plus side of not needing to be authenticated so you really couldn’t pick a better piece to migrate first. You can click the link below to check out our new signup page and see the results!

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Announcing the Ionic React Beta

How to Get Started with React & Ionic?

Getting started is quite simple. Begin first with create-react-app, because we want you to use Ionic with React in the most familiar way. We also recommend using TypeScript in your app, something we recently wrote about on our blog if you need tips. While this is not required, we mention it because Ionic React ships with TypeScript type definitions, and it makes for an excellent developer experience.

 npx create-react-app my-ionic-app --typescript
 cd my-ionic-app

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Angular 7 vs React

Angular is a fully-fledged MVC framework and React is simply a JavaScript Library.

Here’s what Angular provides directly out-of-the-box:
-Templates, based on an extended version of HTML
-XSS protection
-Dependency injection
-Ajax requests by @angular/HTTP
-Routing, provided by @angular/router
-Component CSS encapsulation
-Utilities for unit-testing components
-@angular/forms for building forms
-Write once run everywhere

React provides the following “out of the box”:
-Instead of classic templates, it has JSX, an XML-like language built on top of it
-JavaScript
-XSS protection
-No dependency injection
-Fetch for Ajax requests
-Utilities for unit-testing components
-Learn once write anywhere

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React.js and Spring Data REST - Basic Features

Spring Data REST provides backend functionality
React has sophisticated features to build an easy-to-grok UI.

• Spring Data REST provides a fast way to build hypermedia-powered repositories.
• React is Facebook’s solution to efficient, fast, and easy-to-use views in the land of JavaScript.

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MVC vs Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Flux applications have three major parts: the dispatcher, the stores, and the views (React components). These should not be confused with Model-View-Controller. Controllers do exist in a Flux application, but they are controller-views — views often found at the top of the hierarchy that retrieve data from the stores and pass this data down to their children. Additionally, action creators — dispatcher helper methods — are used to support a semantic API that describes all changes that are possible in the application. It can be useful to think of them as a fourth part of the Flux update cycle.

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Beginning React JS

What Is React?

React is a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It lets you compose complex UIs from small and isolated pieces of code called “components”. React has a few different kinds of components, but we should start with React.Component subclasses

React components implement a render() method that takes input data and returns what to display. It uses an XML-like syntax called JSX but JSX is optional and not required to use React. There are two types of data that control a component: props and state.

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Install and build your first React Native app

React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. With React Native, you don't build a "mobile web app", an "HTML5 app", or a "hybrid app". You build a real mobile app that's indistinguishable from an app built using Objective-C or Java. React Native uses the same fundamental UI building blocks as regular iOS and Android apps. You just put those building blocks together using JavaScript and React. React Native lets you build your app faster. Instead of recompiling, you can reload your app instantly. With Hot Reloading, you can even run new code while retaining your application state

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What are five differences between React.js and React Native?

Reactjs is front end library developed by Facebook. It's used for handling view layer for web and mobile apps. ReactJS allows us to create reusable UI components. It is currently one of the most popular JavaScript libraries and it has strong foundation and large community behind it.

React Nativeis a mobile framework that compiles to native app components, allowing you to build native mobile applications (iOS, Android, and Windows) in JavaScript that allows you to use ReactJS to build your components, and implements ReactJS under the hood.

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Angular vs React : A Side-By-Side Comparison

When starting out with Front-end programming one will run across Angular and React pretty quickly. Currently the JavaScript scene is changing at a very rapid pace, and new technology is coming out every day it seems like. While some may think this is a good thing and others a bad thing, that is besides the point. At this point in time it seems that Angular and React are the two big players that everyone is using. In 6 months or a year that could all change, and as a programmer you should be able to adapt to that change easily.

There are a lot of articles out there about Angular vs React, and a lot of them tend to take a biased side to either one or the other. We can argue that Angular is more popular, and that React makes you a better JavaScript programmer all day long. However, I am not interested in that. I am interested in the cold hard comparisons of what makes each platform different. As a reference, I started writing this article with little to no knowledge of how to use either platform. I believe that this lack of knowledge gives me some form of a non-biased viewpoint on it. I will simply report on what I find and do a side by side comparison of the two frameworks.
I went out and compiled the information I could find on the two frameworks (And Angular 1.0). Below you will see what the results of this research show.

The Basics

Attribute	AngularJS	Angular 2	React
Version	1.5.0-rc1 / 1.49	2.0.0 - In Beta	0.14.6
Author	Google	Google	Facebook
Language	JavaScript/HTML	TypeScript	JSX
Size	143k	764k	151k
Github Stars	46.4k	8.4k	34.4k
Github Contributors	1,386	189	604

This table is pretty straight forward, Angular is by Google and React is by Facebook.

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