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React and React Native

React and React Native

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

React and React Native

4.3 (10)
By: Mikhail Sakhniuk, Roy Derks, Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Welcome to your big-picture guide to the React ecosystem. If you’re new to React and looking to become a professional React developer, this book is for you. This updated fifth edition reflects the current state of React, including React framework coverage as well as TypeScript. Part 1 introduces you to React. You’ll discover JSX syntax, hooks, functional components, and event handling, learn techniques to fetch data from a server, and tackle the tricky problem of state management. Once you’re comfortable with writing React in JavaScript, you’ll pick up TypeScript development in later chapters. Part 2 transitions you into React Native for mobile development. React Native goes hand-in-hand with React. With your React knowledge behind you, you’ll appreciate where and how React Native differs as you write shared components for Android and iOS apps. You’ll learn how to build responsive layouts, use animations, and implement geolocation. By the end of this book, you’ll have a big-picture view of React and React Native and be able to build applications with both.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
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Part I: React
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Part II: React Native
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

What is React Native?

Earlier in this book, I introduced the notion of a render target, the thing that React components render to. The render target is abstract as far as the React programmer is concerned. For example, in React, the render target can be a string, or it could be the Document Object Model (DOM). Therefore, your components never directly interface with the render target because you can never make assumptions about where the rendering is taking place.

A mobile platform has UI widget libraries that developers can leverage to build apps for that platform. On Android, developers implement apps using Java or Kotlin, while, on iOS, developers implement Objective-C or Swift apps. If you want a functional mobile app, you’re going to have to pick one. However, you’ll need to learn both languages, as supporting only one of two major platforms isn’t realistic for success.

For React developers, this isn’t a problem. The same React components that...

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