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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)

Creating an animated Tic-Tac-Toe game application with React Native and Expo

Mobile games often have flashy animations that make the user want to keep playing and make the game more interactive. The Tic-Tac-Toe game that is already functioning uses no animations so far and just has some transitions that have been built in with React Navigation. In this section, you'll be adding animations and gestures to the application, which will improve the game interface and make the user feel more comfortable while playing the game.

Using the React Native Animated API

There are multiple ways to use animations in React Native and one of those is to use the Animated API, which can be found in the core of React Native. With the Animated...