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React and React Native

You're reading from   React and React Native A complete hands-on guide to modern web and mobile development with React.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211140
Length 526 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (33) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: React
2. Why React? FREE CHAPTER 3. Rendering with JSX 4. Component Properties, State, and Context 5. Getting Started with Hooks 6. Event Handling - The React Way 7. Crafting Reusable Components 8. The React Component Life Cycle 9. Validating Component Properties 10. Handling Navigation with Routes 11. Code Splitting Using Lazy Components and Suspense 12. Server-Side React Components 13. User Interface Framework Components 14. Section 2: React Native
15. Why React Native? 16. Kick-Starting React Native Projects 17. Building Responsive Layouts with Flexbox 18. Navigating Between Screens 19. Rendering Item Lists 20. Showing Progress 21. Geolocation and Maps 22. Collecting User Input 23. Displaying Modal Screens 24. Responding to User Gestures 25. Controlling Image Display 26. Going Offline 27. Section 3: React Architecture
28. Native UI Components Using NativeBase 29. Handling Application State 30. Why Apollo? 31. Building an Apollo React App 32. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

This chapter introduced you to event handling in React. The key differentiator between React and other approaches to event handling is that handlers are declared in JSX markup. This makes tracking down which elements handle which events much simpler.

You learned that having multiple event handlers on a single element is a matter of adding new JSX properties. Next, you learned that it's a good idea to share event handling functions that handle generic behavior. Context can be important for event handler functions if they need access to component properties or state. You learned about the various ways to bind event handler function context and parameter values. These include calling bind() and using higher-order event handler functions.

Then, you learned about inline event handler functions and their potential use, as well as how React actually binds a single DOM event handler to the document object. Synthetic events are abstractions that wrap native events; you learned why...

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