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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 created a project management board that lets you move, drag, and drop tasks from one lane to another using the HTML5 Drag and Drop API. The data flow of this application is handled using local state and life cycles and determines which tasks are displayed in the different lanes. This chapter also introduced the advanced React pattern of custom Hooks. With custom Hooks, you can reuse state logic in function components across your applications.

This advanced pattern will be also be used in the next chapter, which will handle routing and Server-Side Rendering (SSR) in React applications using Next.js. Have you ever tried using Stack Overflow to find a solution to a programming issue you once had? I have! In the next chapter, we will be building a community feed that uses Stack Overflow as a data source and React to render the application.