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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 built a mobile messaging application that can be used to send and receive messages from a GraphQL server. The messages are received in real time as GraphQL subscriptions were used to receive the messages through a WebSocket. Also, a mobile authentication flow was added, meaning users should be logged in to send and receive messages. For this, AsyncStorage was used to store the JWT token returned by the GraphQL server in persistent storage.

The project you've built in this chapter was pretty challenging, but the project you'll create in the next chapter will be even more advanced. So far, you've handled most of the core features for a React Native mobile application, but there's more to come. The next chapter will explore how to build a full stack application with React Native and GraphQL as you'll be adding notifications and...