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React Projects

By : Roy Derks
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React Projects

By: Roy Derks

Overview of this book

Developed by Facebook, React is a popular library for building impressive user interfaces. React extends its capabilities to the mobile platform using the React Native framework and integrates with popular web and mobile tools to build scalable applications. React Projects is your guide to learning React development by using modern development patterns and integrating React with powerful web tools such as GraphQL, Expo, and React 360. You'll start building a real-world project right from the first chapter and get hands on with developing scalable applications as you advance to building more complex projects. Throughout the book, you'll use the latest versions of React and React Native to explore features such as Higher Order Components (HOC), Context, and Hooks on multiple platforms, which will help you build full stack web and mobile applications efficiently. Finally, you'll delve into unit testing with Jest to build test-driven apps. By the end of this React book, you'll have developed the skills necessary to start building scalable React apps across web and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you've created a movie list application for React from scratch and learned about core React concepts. This chapter started with you creating a new project with webpack and Babel. These libraries help you compile and run your JavaScript and React code in the browser with minimal setup. Then, we described how to structure a React application. This structure will be used throughout this book. The principles that were applied provided you with the basics from which to create React applications from nothing and structure them in a scalable way.

If you've been working with React before, then these concepts probably weren't that hard to grasp. If you haven't, then don't worry if some concepts felt strange to you. The upcoming chapters will build upon the features that you used in this chapter, giving you enough time to fully understand them.

The project you'll build in the next chapter will focus on creating reusable React components with more advanced styling. This will be available offline since it will be set up as a Progressive Web Application (PWA).