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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)

Building a full-stack social media application with React Native and Expo

The application that you're going to build in this chapter will use a local API to retrieve and mutate data that is available in the application. This application will display data from a social media feed, lets you add new posts containing images, and allows you to respond to these social media posts.

Advanced routing with authentication

We've already learned how to add routing to a React Native application using React Navigation. The routing we added was using a stack navigator, which doesn't have a way to display some sort of menu or navigation bar with all the routes. In this section, we'll be adding a tab navigator using React Navigation to display a tab bar at the bottom of the application. Later on, we'll also be adding an authentication flow.

Adding bottom tabs

Bottom tabs are common on applications for iOS, but less popular on Android applications. In the final section...