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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

Type and value validators

In this section, you'll learn about the more advanced validator functionality available in the React prop-types package. First, you'll learn about the element and node validators that check for values that can be rendered inside HTML markup. Then, you'll see how to check for specific types, beyond the primitive type checking that you just learned about. Finally, you'll implement validation that looks for specific values.

Things that can be rendered

Sometimes, you just want to make sure that a property value is something that can be rendered by JSX markup. For example, if a property value is an array of plain objects, this can't be rendered by putting it in {}. You have to map the array items to JSX elements.

This sort of checking is especially useful if your component passes property values to other elements as children. Let's look at an example of what this looks like:

import PropTypes from "prop-types"...