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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)

Creating a Real-Time Messaging Application with React Native and Expo

Having a real-time connection with a server is crucial when you're developing a real-time messaging application as you want your users to receive their messages as soon as they are sent. What you might have experienced in the previous two chapters is that mobile applications are more intuitive to use than web applications. When you want users to send messages back-and-forth, this is best done by building a mobile application, which you'll do in this chapter.

In this chapter, you'll create a real-time mobile messaging application using React Native and Expo that connects with a GraphQL server. By using WebSockets, you can create real-time connections with a server for web and mobile applications and have a two-way data flow between your application and a GraphQL server. This connection can also...