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React and React Native - Third Edition

By : Adam Boduch, Roy Derks
Book Image

React and React Native - Third Edition

By: Adam Boduch, Roy Derks

Overview of this book

React and React Native, Facebook’s innovative User Interface (UI) libraries, are designed to help you build robust cross-platform web and mobile applications. This updated third edition is improved and updated to cover the latest version of React. The book particularly focuses on the latest developments in the React ecosystem, such as modern Hook implementations, code splitting using lazy components and Suspense, user interface framework components using Material-UI, and Apollo. In terms of React Native, the book has been updated to version 0.62 and demonstrates how to apply native UI components for your existing mobile apps using NativeBase. You will begin by learning about the essential building blocks of React components. Next, you’ll progress to working with higher-level functionalities in application development, before putting this knowledge to use by developing user interface components for the web and for native platforms. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn how to bring your application together with a robust data architecture. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build React applications for the web and React Native applications for multiple mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
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Section 1: React
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Section 2: React Native
27
Section 3: React Architecture

Navigation indicators

Earlier in this chapter, you were introduced to the ActivityIndicator component. In this section, you'll learn how it can be used when navigating an application that loads data. For example, the user navigates from page (screen) one to page two. However, page two needs to fetch data from the API that it can display to the user. So, while this network call is happening, it makes more sense to display a progress indicator instead of a screen devoid of useful information.

Doing this is actually kind of tricky because you have to make sure that the data that's required by the screen is fetched from the API each time the user navigates to the screen. Your goals should be as follows:

  • Have the Navigator component automatically fetch API data for the scene that's about to be rendered.
  • Use the promise that's returned by the API call as a means to display the spinner and hide it once the promise has been resolved.

Since your components probably don&apos...