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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/ch7-initial. The complete source code can also be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-Projects/tree/ch7.

The initial project consists of both a boilerplate application based on Create React App to get you started quickly and a GraphQL server that you can run locally. You can find the application in the client directory and the GraphQL server can be found in the server directory. Both the initial application and the GraphQL server need dependencies installed and need to be running at all times during development, which you can do by running the following commands in both the client and server directories:

npm install && npm start

This command will install all of the dependencies...