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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

Navigators, scenes, routes, and stacks


The core mechanism you'll use to control navigation in your React Native app is the Navigator component. It's used to control route stacks and scenes. I'll quickly define these concepts here, and then we'll dive into some code.

  • Navigator: The overarching component that's used to control how users navigate through your application

  • Scene: A simple React component that represents what the user is currently looking at. Instead of pressing a link on a page that takes them to another page, the Navigator takes them to another scene

  • Route: A JavaScript object containing information about a scene. The Navigator figures out how to render a scene based on information provided by a route

  • Stack: A stack of routes held by the Navigator. These are all the routes that the user can navigate to in a React Native application

Confused? Don't worry! This will all start to make sense once I start speaking in code: right now.

Note

There are actually two other Navigator components...