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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

Step progress

In this final example, you'll build an app that displays the user's progress through a predefined number of steps. For example, it might make sense to split a form into several logical sections and organize them in such a way that, as the user completes one section, they move to the next step. A progress bar would be helpful feedback for the user.

You'll insert a progress bar into the navigation bar, just below the title, so that the user knows how far they've gone and how far is left to go. You'll also reuse the ProgressBar component that you implemented earlier in this chapter.

Let's take a look at the result first. There are four screens in this app that the user can navigate. Here's what the first page (scene) looks like:

Figure 20.5 – The first screen

The progress bar under the title reflects the fact that the user is 25% through the navigation. Let's see what the third screen looks like...