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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)

Creating an animated game application with React Native and Expo

In this section, you'll build an animated game with React Native and Expo that runs directly on a mobile device. React Native allows you to use the same syntax and patterns you already know from React, as it's using the core React library. Also, Expo makes it possible to prevent having to install and configure Xcode (for iOS) or Android Studio to start creating native applications on your machine. Therefore, you can write applications for both the iOS and Android platforms from any machine.

Expo combines both React APIs and JavaScript APIs to the React Native development process, such as JSX components, Hooks, and native features such as camera access. Briefly, the Expo toolchain consists of multiple tools that help you with React Native, such as the Expo CLI, which allows you to create React Native projects from your terminal, with all the dependencies that you need to run React Native. With the Expo client...