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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)

Project overview

In this chapter, we will build a mobile social media application that is using a local API to request and add posts to the social feed, including using the camera on the mobile device. Advanced routing with authentication is added using the local API and React Navigation, while Expo is used for access to the camera (roll).

The build time is 2 hours.

Note

This chapter is using React Native version 0.64.3 and Expo SDK version 44. As React Native and Expo are updated frequently, make sure that you're working with these versions to ensure the patterns described in this chapter are behaving as expected.