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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

Maintaining state using Hooks

The first React Hook API that we'll look at is called useState(), which enables your functional React components to be stateful. Before Hooks were introduced to React, our only option for creating stateful components was to use a class so that we could access the setState() method. In this section, you'll learn how to initialize state values and change the state of a component using Hooks.

Initial state values

When our components are first rendered, they probably expect some state values to be set. This is called the initial state of the component, and we can use the useState() Hook to set the initial state. Let's take a look at an example:

import * as React from "react";
 
export default function App() {
  const [name] = React.useState("Adam");
  const [age] = React.useState(35);
 
  return (
    <>
      <p>My name is...