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React and React Native

React and React Native

By : Adam Boduch, Roy Derks, Mikhail Sakhniuk
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React and React Native

React and React Native

4.6 (17)
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)
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Part 1 – React
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Part 2 – React Native
31
Part 3 – React Architecture

Setting component state

In this section, you're going to write some React code that sets the state of components. First, you'll learn about the initial state—that is, the default state of a component. Next, you'll learn how to change the state of a component, causing it to re-render itself. Finally, you'll see how a new state is merged with an existing state.

Setting initial component state

The initial state of a component isn't actually required, but if your component uses state, it should be set. This is because if the component expects certain state properties to be there and they aren't, then the component will either fail or render something unexpected. Thankfully, it's easy to set the initial component state.

The initial state of a component should always be an object with one or more properties. For example, you might have a component that uses a single array as its state. This is fine, but just make sure that you set the initial...

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