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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)

Getting started

The project that we'll create in this chapter builds upon an initial version that you can find on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-Projects/tree/ch4-initial. The complete source code can also be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-Projects/tree/ch4. Also, this project uses the publicly available Stack Overflow API to fill the application with data. This is done by fetching questions that are posted to Stack Overflow. More information about this API can be found at: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions#order=desc&sort=hot&tagged=reactjs&filter=default&site=stackoverflow&run=true.

After downloading the initial project from GitHub, you need to move into the root directory for this project and run npm install. As this project is built on top of Create React App, running this command will install...