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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)

Chapter 3: Building a Dynamic Project Management Board

In the first two chapters of this book, you created two React projects all by yourself, and you should, by now, have a solid understanding of the core concepts of React. The concepts you've used so far will also be used in this chapter to create your third project with React, including some new and more advanced concepts that will show you the strength of using React. Again, if you feel you lack some of the knowledge you'll need to finalize the contents of this chapter, you can always repeat what you have built so far.

This chapter will once again use Create React App, which you used in the previous chapter. During the development of the project management board application for this chapter, we'll create and use a custom Hook for data fetching. HTML5 web APIs will be used to dynamically drag and drop components, which are set up as reusable components with styled-components. Following this, you'll use more...