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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, you've added dynamic routing to a Create React App using react-router, making it possible for users to open your application on a specific page. By using the React feature Suspense, components are loaded dynamically on the client-side. This way, you lower the amount of time before your user first gets in contact with your application. The project you created in this chapter also supports SSR, and React Helmet is used to add dynamic head tags to the application for SEO purposes.

After completing this chapter, you must already feel like an expert with React! The next chapter will for sure take your skill to the next level as you'll learn how to handle state management using the context API. With the context API, you can share state and data between multiple components in your application, no matter whether they're direct children of the parent...