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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)

Enabling SSR

Using SSR can be helpful if you're building an application that needs to render very quickly or when you want certain information to be loaded before the web page is visible. Although most search engines are now able to render SPAs, this can still be an improvement, for example, if you want users to share your page on social media or when you want to enhance the performance of your application.

Fetching data server side with Next.js

There is no standard pattern to enable SSR for your React application, but luckily, Next.js supports multiple ways to do data fetching, such as dynamically from the client, server side on every request, or statically during build time. The first way is what we've done in this chapter so far and in this section, we'll be requesting our data server side on every request. For this, the Next.js getServerSideProps method will be used.

Note

Next.js also offers the getStaticProps and getStaticPaths methods to generate the...