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React and React Native - Fourth Edition

By : Adam Boduch, Roy Derks, Mikhail Sakhniuk
Book Image

React and React Native - Fourth Edition

By: Adam Boduch, Roy Derks, Mikhail Sakhniuk

Overview of this book

Over the years, React and React Native has proven itself among JavaScript developers as a popular choice for a complete and practical guide to the React ecosystem. This fourth edition comes with the latest features, enhancements, and fixes to align with React 18, while also being compatible with React Native. It includes new chapters covering critical features and concepts in modern cross-platform app development with React. From the basics of React to popular components such as Hooks, GraphQL, and NativeBase, this definitive guide will help you become a professional React developer in a step-by-step manner. You'll begin by learning about the essential building blocks of React components. As you advance through the chapters, you'll work with higher-level functionalities in application development and then put your knowledge to work by developing user interface components for the web and native platforms. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn how to bring your application together with robust data architecture. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build React applications for the web and React Native applications for multiple mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (36 chapters)
1
Part 1 – React
15
Part 2 – React Native
31
Part 3 – React Architecture

Chapter 10: Code Splitting Using Lazy Components and Suspense

Code splitting has been happening in React applications for some time now, long before there was any official support in the React API. With the latest version of React, there are new APIs that we can use that directly support code-splitting scenarios. Code splitting is necessary when you have larger applications with a lot of JavaScript code that must be delivered to a browser.

Big monolithic JavaScript bundles that house an entire application can create usability issues on initial page loads due to longer load times. With code splitting, we have more fine-grained control over how code makes its way from the server to the browser. This means more opportunities for us to properly handle load-time User Experience (UX).

In this chapter, you'll learn how to do this in your React applications by using the lazy() API and the Suspense components, two recent additions to React. Once you understand how these two pieces...