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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

Using event handler context and parameters

In this section, you'll learn about React components that bind their event handler contexts and how you can pass data into event handlers. Having the right context is important for React event handler functions because they usually need access to component properties or state. Being able to parameterize event handlers is also important because they don't pull data out of DOM elements.

Getting component data

In this section, you'll learn about scenarios where the handler needs access to component properties, along with argument values. You'll render a custom list component that has a click event handler for each item in the list. The component is passed an array of values, as follows:

import * as React from "react";
import * as ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import MyList from "./MyList";
 
const items = [
  { id: 0, name: "First" },
  { id: 1, name: &quot...