React and React Native

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

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Adam Boduch

Paid access

|Sep 2025

E-Book €32.99Institutions €132.95

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.

Why React?
Rendering with JSX
Understanding Properties and State
Event Handling, The React Way
Crafting Reusable Components
The React Component Lifecycle
Validating Component Properties
Extending Components using Inheritance and Mixins
Handling Navigation with Routes
Server-side React Components
Mobile-first React Components
Why React Native?
Kickstarting React Native Projects
Building Responsive Layouts with Flexbox
Navigating Between Screens
Rendering Item Lists
Showing Progress
Geolocation and Maps
Collecting User Input
Displaying Modal Screens
Responding to User Gestures
Controlling Image Display
Going Offline
Handling Application State
Why Relay
Building a Relay React App

https://github.com/packtpublishing/react-and-react-native

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-957-1

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 500

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