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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've learned how to use Next.js as an alternative to Create React App. Next.js is a framework to create React applications, without having to add configuration for compiling and building your code or to handle features such as routing and data fetching. The project you created in this chapter supports SSR, as this is built in by Next.js. Also, we've added dynamic head tags to the application for SEO purposes.

After completing this chapter, you must already feel like an expert with React! The next chapter will take your skill to the next level as you'll learn how to handle state management using the context API. With the context API, you can share the state and data between multiple components in your application, no matter whether they're direct children of the parent component or not.