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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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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

Lazy list loading

In this section, you'll implement a different kind of list—one that scrolls infinitely. Sometimes, users don't actually know what they're looking for, so filtering or sorting isn't going to help. Think about the Facebook news feed you see when you log into your account; it's the main feature of the application and rarely are you looking for something specific. You need to see what's going on by scrolling through the list.

To do this using a FlatList component, you need to be able to fetch more API data when the user scrolls to the end of the list. To get an idea of how this works, you need a lot of API data to work with. Generators are great at this! So let's modify the mock that you created in the Fetching list data example so that it just keeps responding with new data:

function* genItems() {
let cnt = 0;

while (true) {
yield `Item ${cnt++}`;
}
}

const items = genItems();

export function fetchItems() {
return Promise.resolve...
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