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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

Reusable HTML elements

Let's think about HTML elements for a moment. Depending on the type of HTML element, it's either feature-centric or utility-centric. Utility-centric HTML elements are more reusable than feature-centric HTML elements. For example, consider the <section> element. This is a generic element that can be used just about anywhere, but its primary purpose is to compose the structural aspects of a feature—the outer shell of the feature and the inner sections of the feature. This is where the <section> element is most useful.

On the other side of the fence, you have elements such as <p>, <span>, and <button>. These elements provide a high level of utility because they're generic by design. You're supposed to use <button> elements whenever you have something that's clickable by the user, resulting in an action. This is a level lower than the concept of a feature.

While it's easy to talk about HTML elements...