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React and React Native - Fourth Edition

By : Adam Boduch, Roy Derks, Mikhail Sakhniuk
Book Image

React and React Native - Fourth Edition

By: Adam Boduch, Roy Derks, Mikhail Sakhniuk

Overview of this book

Over the years, React and React Native has proven itself among JavaScript developers as a popular choice for a complete and practical guide to the React ecosystem. This fourth edition comes with the latest features, enhancements, and fixes to align with React 18, while also being compatible with React Native. It includes new chapters covering critical features and concepts in modern cross-platform app development with React. From the basics of React to popular components such as Hooks, GraphQL, and NativeBase, this definitive guide will help you become a professional React developer in a step-by-step manner. You'll begin by learning about the essential building blocks of React components. As you advance through the chapters, you'll work with higher-level functionalities in application development and then put your knowledge to work by developing user interface components for the web and native platforms. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn how to bring your application together with robust data architecture. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build React applications for the web and React Native applications for multiple mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (36 chapters)
1
Part 1 – React
15
Part 2 – React Native
31
Part 3 – React Architecture

Summary

This chapter was all about code splitting and bundling, which are important concepts for larger React applications. We started by looking at how code is split into bundles in your React applications by using the import() function. Then, we looked at the lazy() React API and how it helps to simplify loading bundles when components are rendered for the first time. Next, we looked more deeply at the Suspense component, which is used to manage content while component bundles are being fetched. The fallback property is how we specify the content to be shown while bundles are being loaded. You typically don't need more than one Suspense component in your app, as long as you follow a consistent pattern for bundling pages of your app.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to use the Next.js framework to handle rendering React components on the server. The Next.js framework allows you to create pages that act as React components and can be rendered on the server and in...