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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 28: Selecting Native UI Components Using NativeBase

Right out of the box, React Native gives us most of the tools we need to build a fully functional native application that runs on both Android and iOS. However, taking your application to the next level and delivering a consistent and polished user experience (UX) across both platforms requires help. NativeBase can provide us with additional tools that can facilitate quality user interface (UI) designs for React Native apps. It is possible to build a quality native UI without a tool such as NativeBase, but this would require a lot more coding on our part. If you want to deliver applications that address specific challenges faced by your users rather than maintaining your own UI library, NativeBase might be what you're looking for.

We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Application containers
  • Headers, footers, and navigation
  • Using layout components
  • Collecting input using form components...