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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)

Project overview

In this chapter, we will create a mobile messaging application build with React Native and Expo that uses a GraphQL server for authentication and to send and receive messages. Messages can be received in real-time as GraphQL subscriptions are used through a WebSocket that was created with Apollo. Users need to be logged in to send messages through the application, for which an authentication flow was built using React Navigation and AsyncStorage to store authentication details in persistent storage.

The build time is 2 hours.