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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

Progress and usability


Imagine that you have a microwave oven that has no window and makes no sound. The only way to interact with it, is a by pressing a button labeled cook. As absurd as this device sounds, it's what many software users are faced with—there's no indication of progress. Is the microwave cooking anything? If so, how do we know when it will be done?

Well, one way to improve the microwave situation is to add sound. This way, the user gets feedback after pressing the cook button. So, we've overcome one hurdle, but the user is still left guessing—where's my food? Before we go out of business, we had better add some sort of progress measurement display. A timer! Brilliant!

In all seriousness, it's not that UI programmers don't understand the basic principles of this usability concern; it's just that we have a stuff to get done and this sort of thing simply slips through the cracks in terms of priority. In React Native, there are components for giving the user indeterminate progress...