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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)

Getting started

The application for this chapter builds upon an initial version, which can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-Projects-Second-Edition/tree/main/Chapter06-initial. The complete code for this chapter can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-Projects-Second-Edition/tree/main/Chapter06.

Start by downloading the initial project from GitHub and move into the root directory for this project, where you must run the npm install command. Since this project builds upon Create React App, running this command will install react, react-dom, and react-scripts. Also, styled-components and react-router-dom will be installed so that they can handle styling and routing for the application. Something else that will be installed is the React Test Library, which you will recognize with the @testing-library/* prefix. After finishing the installation process, you can execute the npm start command to run the application so that you can visit the...