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React and React Native

Build cross-platform JavaScript apps with native power for mobile, web and desktop

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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Paid access
|Jul 2025
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Description

Use React and React Native to build applications for desktop browsers, mobile browsers, and even as native mobile apps

Key Features

  • Build React and React Native applications using familiar component concepts
  • Dive deep into each platform, from routing in React to creating native mobile applications that can run offline
  • Use Facebook’s Relay, React and GraphQL technologies, to create a unified architecture that powers both web and native applications

Book Description

para 1: Dive into the world of React and create powerful applications with responsive and streamlined UIs! With React best practices for both Android and iOS, this book demonstrates React and React Native in action, helping you to create intuitive and engaging applications. Para 2: React and React Native allow you to build desktop, mobile and native applications for all major platforms. Combined with Flux and Relay, you?ll be able to create powerful and feature-complete applications from just one code base. Para 3: Discover how to build desktop and mobile applications using Facebook?s innovative UI libraries. You?ll also learn how to craft composable UIs using React, and then apply these concepts to building Native UIs using React Native. Finally, find out how you can create React applications which run on all major platforms, and leverage Relay for feature-complete and data-driven applications. Para 4: What?s Inside ? Craft composable UIs using React & build Native UIs using React Native ? Create React applications for major platforms ? Access APIs ? Leverage Relay for data-driven web & native mobile applications

What you will learn

    Who this book is for

    Perfect for anyone who wants to create mobile and desktop applications (including native mobile apps), React and React Native features step-by-step instructions and examples designed for all levels of React and React Native developers and students.

    Table of Contents

    1. Why React?
    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 using Inheritance and Mixins
    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. Displaying Modal Screens
    21. Responding to User Gestures
    22. Controlling Image Display
    23. Going Offline
    24. Handling Application State
    25. Why Relay
    26. Building a Relay React App
    https://github.com/packtpublishing/react-and-react-native
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-957-1
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 500
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    Programming and languages
    BISAC subjects:
    COM051260,
    COM060160,
    COM051460
    Thema subjects:
    UMW,
    UMS

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