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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)
1
Section 1: React
14
Section 2: React Native
27
Section 3: React Architecture

The GraphQL schema

The schema is the vocabulary used by the GraphQL backend server and the Apollo components in the frontend. The GraphQL type system enables the schema to describe the data that's available and how to put it all together when a query request comes in. This is what makes the whole approach so scalablethe fact that the GraphQL runtime figures out how to put data together. All you need to supply are functions that tell GraphQL where the data is; for example, in a database or in a remote service endpoint.

Let's take a look at some of the types used in the GraphQL schema for the Todo app:

We'll start with Todo itself:

type Todo {
id: ID!
text: String!
complete: Boolean
}

This type describes the Todo objects used throughout the application, including all the optional and required fields for this type. In the example code, you can see that the types followed with an exclamation mark are required (id and text), and the ones without an exclamation mark...