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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

Using the Styled Components library

Styled components is a CSS-in-JS library that styles React Native components using plain CSS. With this approach, you don't need to define style classes via objects and provide style props. The CSS itself is determined via tagged template literals provided by styled-components.

To install styled-components, run this command in your project:

npm install --save styled-components

Let's try to rewrite components from the Introducing React Native styles section. Here is what our Box component will look like:

import styled from "styled-components/native";
const Box = styled.View'
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  background-color: lightgray;
';
const BoxText = styled.Text'
  color: darkslategray;
  font-weight: bold;
';

In this example, we've got two components, Box and BoxText...