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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

Working with styles and themes

Included with Material-UI are systems for extending the styles of UI components, and extending theme styles that are applied to all components. In this section, you'll learn about using both of these systems.

Making styles

Material-UI comes with a makeStyles() function that can be used to create styles based on JavaScript objects. The return value of this function is a Hook function, which, when used in a component, returns an object with the different style names as properties. There are two ways to use this style object with your Material-UI components:

  • The first is to pass the style name to the className property of the component:
const classes = makeStyles({ myStyle: { ... }});
...
<Button className={classes.myStyle} />

This will apply whatever CSS properties that you've defined in myStyle to the Button component. The challenge with this approach is that every Material-UI component has several styles applied to it and it's very easy...

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