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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

Handling route parameters

The URLs that you've seen so far in this chapter have all been static. Most applications will use both static and dynamic routes. In this section, you'll learn how to pass dynamic URL segments into your components, how to make these segments optional, and how to get query string parameters.

Resource IDs in routes

One common use case is to make the ID of a resource part of the URL. This makes it easy for your code to get the ID, then make an API call that fetches the relevant resource data. Let's implement a route that renders a user detail page. This will require a route that includes the user ID, which then needs to somehow be passed to the component so that it can fetch the user.

Let's start with the App component that declares the routes:

import React, { Fragment } from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route } from "react-router-dom";
import UsersContainer from "./UsersContainer";
import UserContainer...
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