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React Projects - Second Edition

By : Roy Derks
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React Projects - Second Edition

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 mobile platforms 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 routing, Context, and Hooks on multiple platforms, which will help you build full-stack web and mobile applications efficiently. Finally, you'll get to grips with unit testing with Jest and end-to-end testing with Cypress 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 (12 chapters)

Getting started

The complete code for this chapter can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-Projects-Second-Edition/tree/main/Chapter01.

For the applications created in this book, you'll need to have at least Node.js v14.17.0 installed on your machine so that you can run npm commands. If you haven't installed Node.js on your machine, please go to https://nodejs.org/en/download/, where you can find the download instructions for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

After installing Node.js, run the following commands in your command line to check the installed versions:

  • For Node.js (which should be v14.17.0 or higher), use this:
    node -v
  • For npm (which should be v6.14.3 or higher), use this:
    npm -v

Also, you should have installed the React Developer Tools plugin (for Chrome and Firefox) and added it to your browser. This plugin can be installed from the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore) or Firefox Add-ons (https:/...