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React Projects - Second Edition

By : Roy Derks
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React Projects - Second Edition

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 mobile platforms 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 routing, Context, and Hooks on multiple platforms, which will help you build full-stack web and mobile applications efficiently. Finally, you'll get to grips with unit testing with Jest and end-to-end testing with Cypress 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 (12 chapters)

Chapter 10: Creating a Virtual Reality Application with React and Three.js

You're almost there—only one more chapter to go and then you can call yourself a React expert that has experienced React on every platform. Throughout this book, you've built nine applications with React and React Native. In this final chapter, we won't be creating a web or mobile application, but a Virtual Reality (VR) application with React and three.js. With three.js, you can create dynamic 2D, 3D, and VR experiences using JavaScript, and with the use of another library apply it within React. Although VR is still an emerging technology, the best use cases for VR are, for example, retail stores that want their customers to experience their stores or games online.

In this chapter, you'll explore the very basics of what's possible with React together with three.js and how it relates to React. The application you will build will be able to render 360-degree panorama images and...