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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

Collecting user input

Collecting input from users can be difficult. There are many nuanced things about every field that we need to consider if we plan on getting the user experience right. Thankfully, the form components available in Material-UI take care of a lot of usability concerns for us. In this section, you'll get a brief sampling of the input controls that you can use.

Checkboxes and radio buttons

Checkboxes are useful for collecting true/false answers from users, while radio buttons are useful for getting the user to select an option from a short number of choices. Let's take a look at an example of these components in Material-UI:

import "typeface-roboto";
import React from "react";
import Checkbox from "@mui/material/Checkbox";
import Radio from "@mui/material/Radio";
import RadioGroup from "@mui/material/RadioGroup";
import FormControlLabel from
  "@mui/material/FormControlLabel";...