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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 4: Getting Started with Hooks

One of the most anticipated new features of React is Hooks, an API that allows your functional components to "hook" into React functionality. The overarching motivation for this feature is to simplify your components. For example, forcing React developers to use classes to define their components leads to the overuse of wrapper components to pass state around their apps. With Hooks, you can stick with simple functions to implement your components and have a clear picture of how everything fits together.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Maintaining state using Hooks
  • Performing initialization and cleanup actions
  • Sharing data using context Hooks
  • Using reducer Hooks to scale state management