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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)

Chapter 9: Building a Full-Stack Social Media Application with React Native and Expo

Most of the projects that you've created in this book focused on displaying data and making it possible to navigate between pages. When we created our first mobile application with React Native, animations were one of the focus points, which is a must-have when creating a mobile application. In this chapter, we'll be exploring a big advantage of mobile applications, namely the ability to use the camera (or camera roll) from the phone.

The application we'll be creating in this chapter will follow the same patterns for data-heavy applications as in previous chapters. React techniques such as Context and Hooks are used to get data from a local API that also supports authentication, while React Navigation is used again to create a more advanced routing setup. Also, Expo is used to post images to a social feed by using the camera of the mobile device the application is running on.

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