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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you used Create React App to create your starter project for a React application, which comes with an initial configuration for libraries such as Babel and Webpack. By doing this, you don't have to configure these libraries yourself and worry about how your React code will run in the browser. We've looked into building reusable components in this chapter and learned how to add dynamic routing with react-router. With this library, you can create applications that have tons of routes, and you're able to use changes in the URL to change what is displayed inside your application.

The upcoming chapters will all feature projects that are created with Create React App or other zero-config libraries, meaning that these projects don't require you to make changes to Webpack or Babel.

In the next chapter, we will build upon this chapter by creating a dynamic project management board with React that uses styled-components for styling and reuses logic with custom Hooks.