Chapter 9: Building a Full-Stack Social Media Application with React Native and Expo
Most of the projects that you've created in this book focused on displaying data and making it possible to navigate between pages. When we created our first mobile application with React Native, animations were one of the focus points, which is a must-have when creating a mobile application. In this chapter, we'll be exploring a big advantage of mobile applications, namely the ability to use the camera (or camera roll) from the phone.
The application we'll be creating in this chapter will follow the same patterns for data-heavy applications as in previous chapters. React techniques such as Context and Hooks are used to get data from a local API that also supports authentication, while React Navigation is used again to create a more advanced routing setup. Also, Expo is used to post images to a social feed by using the camera of the mobile device the application is running on.
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