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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.
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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React Native current architecture

The React Native library allows you to create native applications with React and JS by utilizing native building blocks. For instance, the <Image/> component represents two other native components, ImageView on Android and UIImageView on iOS. This is viable because of the architecture of React Native, which includes two dedicated layers, represented by JS and Native threads:

Figure 16.4: React Native threads

In the next sections, we will explore each thread and see how they can communicate, ensuring that JS is integrated into the native code.

JS as part of React Native

As the browser executes JS through JS engines such as V8, SpiderMonkey, and others, React Native also contains a JS virtual machine. There, our JS code is executed, API calls are made, touch events are processed, and many other processes occur.

Initially, React Native only supported Apple’s JavaScriptCore virtual machine. With iOS devices, this...

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