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React Projects

You're reading from   React Projects Build advanced cross-platform projects with React and React Native to become a professional developer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070638
Length 384 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Creating a Single-Page Application in React 2. Chapter 2: Creating a Portfolio in React with Reusable Components and Routing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Building a Dynamic Project Management Board 4. Chapter 4: Building a Server-Side-Rendered Community Feed Using Next.js 5. Chapter 5: Building a Personal Shopping List Application Using Context and Hooks 6. Chapter 6: Building an Application Exploring TDD Using the React Testing Library and Cypress 7. Chapter 7: Building a Full-Stack E-Commerce Application with Next.js and GraphQL 8. Chapter 8: Building an Animated Game Using React Native and Expo 9. Chapter 9: Building a Full-Stack Social Media Application with React Native and Expo 10. Chapter 10: Creating a Virtual Reality Application with React and Three.js 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a VR application with React and Three.js

You can write 2D and 3D VR applications in React by combining it with other libraries. Previously, you could write VR applications in React directly with React 360. But due to the emergence of other popular libraries, such as three.js, which is based on JavaScript, its development was discontinued. Three.js allows you to create applications with both 2D and 3D UI components without having to deal with complex setups for mobile or VR devices, which is similar to how React works.

To render both 2D and 3D in browsers, three.js uses WebGL, which is a JavaScript API that runs directly in the browser. It's supported by all recent versions of popular browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.

Getting started with Three.js

Three.js is based on JavaScript and can be used together with React using a different library called @react-three/fiber, which is a React renderer for three.js that creates a link between the two...

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