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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

Understanding progress and usability

Imagine that you have a microwave oven that has no window and makes no sound. The only way to interact with it is by pressing a button labeled cook. As absurd as this device sounds, it's what many software users face – no indication of progress. Is the microwave cooking anything? If so, how do we know when it will be done?

One way to improve the microwave situation is to add sound. This way, the user gets feedback after pressing the cook button. You've overcome one hurdle, but the user is still left asking, "Where's my food?" Before you go out of business, you had better add some sort of progress measurement display, such as a timer.

It's not that UI programmers don't understand the basic principles of this usability concern; it's just that they have stuff to do, and this sort of thing simply slips through the cracks in terms of priority. In React Native, there are components to give the user...