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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, we've created a React Native application with Expo. React Native uses the same principles as React and can be used to create mobile applications. We've added basic routing with React Navigation, based on stack navigation. We've also added basic and more complex gestures to the game, which run in the native thread thanks to the react-native-gesture-handler package. Finally, animations were created using the React Native Animated API and Lottie, which is available from the Expo CLI.

The project that we'll create in the next chapter will explore handling data in React Native. We'll also learn about the differences in styling between iOS and Android.