React Projects

Build 12 real-world applications from scratch using React, React Native, and React 360

By: Roy Derks

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eText | 19 August 2013 | Edition Number 1

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Build cross-platform applications of varying complexity for the web, mobile, and VR devices using React tooling

Key Features

Build React applications at scale using effective React patterns and best practices
Explore React features such as Hooks, the Context API, and the Suspense API
Extend React's integration with React Native for building cross-platform mobile apps and games

Book Description

Developed by Facebook, React is a popular library for building impressive user interfaces. React extends its capabilities to the mobile platform 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 Higher Order Components (HOC), Context, and Hooks on multiple platforms, which will help you build full stack web and mobile applications efficiently. Finally, you'll delve into unit testing with Jest 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.

What you will learn

Create a wide range of applications using various modern React tools and frameworks
Discover how React Hooks modernize state management for React apps
Develop progressive web applications using React components
Build test-driven React applications using the Jest and Enzyme frameworks
Understand full stack development using React, Apollo, and GraphQL
Perform server-side rendering using React and React Router
Design gestures and animations for a cross-platform game using React Native

Who this book is for

The book is for JavaScript developers who want to explore React tooling and frameworks for building cross-platform applications. Basic knowledge of web development, ECMAScript, and React will assist with understanding key concepts covered in this book.