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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)

Building a house listing application with React Native and Expo

In this section, you'll build a house listing application with React Native and Expo, which allows you to use the same syntax and patterns you already know from React, as it's using the React library. Also, Expo makes it possible to prevent having to install and configure Xcode (for iOS) or Android Studio to start creating native applications on your machine. Therefore, you can write applications for both the iOS and Android platforms from any machine.

You can also run a React Native application in the browser using Expo web to create Progressive Web Applications (PWAs). However, developing for iOS, Android, and the web at the same time is still experimental and might need a lot of performance and architectural fixes. Also, not all the packages that work in React Native on mobile devices will work on Expo...