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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, we added animations and gestures to a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game that was built with React Native and Expo. The animations were created using the React Native Animated API and Lottie, which is available from the Expo CLI and as a separate package. We also added basic and more complex gestures to the game, which runs in the native thread thanks to the react-native-gesture-handler package.

Animations and gestures provide a clear improvement to the user interface of your mobile application, and there's even more we can do. Still, our application will also need to request and display data to your users.

Previously, we used GraphQL alongside React. We will build upon this in the next chapter. The project that you'll create in the next chapter will explore handling real-time data in a React Native application using WebSockets and GraphQL using Apollo...