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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, you learned about navigation in React Native applications. We compared the traditional mechanisms used to navigate web applications with what's used in native mobile apps. The key differentiator in React Native is that there's no URL. Instead, you have to rely on route objects.

Next, you implemented a basic example that rendered different screen content based on the link that was pressed. Links can be tricky because you're not passing a URL that's automatically handled by a web browser. Next, you learned about the navigation bar component that can be passed to the navigator, to provide consistent navigation between iOS and Android.

Then, you implemented dynamic scenes that passed content through the route object. Instead of providing an initial route stack, you only provided an initial route that was replaced whenever the user pressed a navigation button. Lastly, you learned a simple technique to implement simple back and forward navigation...

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