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React and React Native

You're reading from React and React Native Build cross-platform JavaScript apps with native power for mobile, web and desktop

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465658

Length 500 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Adam Boduch

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Table of Contents (34) Chapters

React and React Native

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Why React? FREE CHAPTER

2. Rendering with JSX

3. Understanding Properties and State

4. Event Handling – The React Way

5. Crafting Reusable Components

6. The React Component Lifecycle

7. Validating Component Properties

8. Extending Components

9. Handling Navigation with Routes

10. Server-Side React Components

11. Mobile-First React Components

12. Why React Native?

13. Kickstarting React Native Projects

14. Building Responsive Layouts with Flexbox

15. Navigating Between Screens

16. Rendering Item Lists

17. Showing Progress

18. Geolocation and Maps

19. Collecting User Input

20. Alerts, Notifications, and Confirmation

21. Responding to User Gestures

22. Controlling Image Display

23. Going Offline

24. Handling Application State

25. Why Relay and GraphQL?

26. Building a Relay React App

Chapter 12. Why React Native?

Facebook created React Native to build its mobile applications. The motivation to do so came from the fact that React for the Web was so successful. If React is such a good tool for UI development, and you need a native application, then why fight it? Just make React work with native mobile OS UI elements!

In this chapter, you'll be introduced to React Native and the motivations for using it to build native mobile web applications.

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Authors (1)

Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.

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