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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)

Creating a project management board application

In this section, we'll create a project management board PWA that uses custom Hooks for data fetching and the HTML5 Drag and Drop API to make it dynamic. We're going to use a boilerplate application that is set up with Create React App, which we can find in the GitHub repository for this chapter.

Handling the data flow

With the initial version of the application in place, the next step is to fetch the initial data for the project management board and handle its flow through the components. For this, we will create a custom Hook for data fetching that can be reused in other components.

The first part of this section will show us how to load data from a data source using React life cycle methods and display this in React components.

Loading and displaying the data

Loading and displaying data that is retrieved from a data source is something we did in the previous chapter. The data used in this chapter is coming...