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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

Viewing your app on Expo Snack

The Snack service provided by Expo is a playground for your React Native code. It lets you organize your React Native project files just like you would locally on your computer. If you end up putting something together that is worth building on, you can export your Snack. You can also create an Expo account and save your Snacks to keep working on them or to share them with others. You can find Expo Snack by the link: https://snack.expo.dev/.

We can create a React Native app in Expo Snack from scratch, and it will be stored in an Expo account, or we can import existing projects from a Git repository. The nice thing about importing a repository is that when you push changes to Git, your Snack will also be updated. The Git URL for the example that we've worked on in this chapter looks like this: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-and-React-Native-4th-Edition-/tree/main/Chapter16/my-project.

We can click on the Import git repository button...