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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

Animating layout components

A common use case is animating the entering and exiting layout of your components. This means that when your component renders for the first time and when you unmount your component, it appears animated. React Native Reanimated is an API that lets you animate layouts and add animations such as FadeIn, BounceIn, and ZoomIn.

React Native Reanimated also provides a special Animated component that is the same as the Animated component in the Animated API, but with additional props:

  • entering: Accepts predefined animation when the component will mount and render
  • exiting: Accepts the same animation object, but it will be called when the component unmounts

Let's create a simple todo list with a button for creating tasks, and a feature that allows us to delete tasks when we click on them.

Important Note

It's impossible to see animation in screenshots, so I suggest you open the code and try to implement the animations to see...