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React and React Native

You're reading from   React and React Native Build cross-platform JavaScript apps with native power for mobile, web and desktop

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465658
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam Boduch Adam Boduch
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Why React? FREE CHAPTER 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 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. Alerts, Notifications, and Confirmation 21. Responding to User Gestures 22. Controlling Image Display 23. Going Offline 24. Handling Application State 25. Why Relay and GraphQL? 26. Building a Relay React App

Summary

In this chapter, we implemented some specific Relay and GraphQL ideas. Starting with the GraphQL schema, you learned how to declare the data that's used by the application and how these data types resolve to specific data sources, such as microservice endpoints. Then, we dove into bootstrapping GraphQL queries from Relay in our React Native app. Next, we walked through the specifics of adding, changing, and listing todo items. The application itself uses the same schema as the web version of the Todo application, which makes things much easier when you're developing web and native React applications.

Well, that's a wrap for this book. We've gone over a lot of material together, and I hope that you've learned from reading it as much as I have by writing it. If there was one theme from this book that you should walk away with, it's that React is simply a rendering abstraction. As new rendering targets emerge, new React libraries will emerge as well. As...

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