Chapter 1: Creating a Single-Page Application in React

When you bought this book, you'd probably heard of React before and maybe even tried out some of the code examples that can be found online. This book is constructed in such a way that the code examples in each chapter gradually increase in complexity, so even if you feel your experience with React is limited, each chapter should be understandable if you've read the previous one. By the end of this book, you will know how to work with React and its stable features, up until version 18, and you will also have experience with GraphQL and React Native.

This first chapter kicks off with us learning how to build a single-page application based on the popular TV show Rick and Morty; the application will provide us with information about its characters that we'll fetch from an external source. The core concepts for getting started with React will be applied to this project, which should be understandable if you&apos...