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React and React Native

By : Adam Boduch
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React and React Native

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

para 1: Dive into the world of React and create powerful applications with responsive and streamlined UIs! With React best practices for both Android and iOS, this book demonstrates React and React Native in action, helping you to create intuitive and engaging applications. Para 2: React and React Native allow you to build desktop, mobile and native applications for all major platforms. Combined with Flux and Relay, you?ll be able to create powerful and feature-complete applications from just one code base. Para 3: Discover how to build desktop and mobile applications using Facebook?s innovative UI libraries. You?ll also learn how to craft composable UIs using React, and then apply these concepts to building Native UIs using React Native. Finally, find out how you can create React applications which run on all major platforms, and leverage Relay for feature-complete and data-driven applications. Para 4: What?s Inside ? Craft composable UIs using React & build Native UIs using React Native ? Create React applications for major platforms ? Access APIs ? Leverage Relay for data-driven web & native mobile applications
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
React and React Native
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Flexbox is the new layout standard


Before the flexible box layout model was introduced to CSS, the various approaches to building layouts felt hacky and were error prone. Flexbox fixes this by abstracting many of the properties that you would normally have to provide in order to make the layout work.

In essence, the flexbox is exactly what it sounds like—a box model that's flexible. That's the beauty of flexbox—it's simple. You have a box that acts as a container, and you have child elements within that box. Both the container and the child elements are flexible in how they're rendered on the screen, as illustrated here:

Flexbox containers have a direction, either column (up/down) or row (left/right). This actually confused me when I was first learning flexbox: my brain refused to believe that rows move from left to right. Rows stack on top of one another! The key thing to remember is that it's the direction that the box flexes, not the direction that boxes are placed on the screen.

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