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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 created a full stack React application that uses GraphQL as its backend. Using a GraphQL server and mock data, the GraphQL server was created within Next.js using API routes. This GraphQL server takes queries and mutations to provide you with data and lets you mutate that data. This GraphQL server is used by a React application that uses Apollo Client to send and receive data from the server.

That's it! You've completed the seventh chapter of this book and have already created seven web applications with React. By now, you should feel comfortable with React and its features and be ready to learn some more. In the next chapter, you'll be introduced to React Native and learn how you can use your React skills to build a mobile application by creating an animated game with React Native and Expo.