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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

Chapter 15: React Native under the Hood

The previous chapter briefly touched on what React Native is and the differences that users experience between the Native UI and mobile browsers.

In this chapter, we will dig deeper into React Native as well as become well versed on how it performs on mobile devices and what we should attain before commencing any efforts with this framework. We will also look at what options we can execute for the native functionality of JavaScript and what restrictions we will come up against.

So, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Exploring React Native architecture
  • Explaining JavaScript and Native modules
  • Exploring React Native components and APIs

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