React and React Native: Build cross-platform JavaScript and TypeScript apps for the web, desktop, and mobile

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: A new edition of this book, updated for latest version of React 19, and is now available.

Key Features

• New content on TypeScript, React frameworks, state management strategies, and unit testing
• Get to grips with React fundamentals and modern React techniques and architecture
• Broaden your React expertise through mobile development with React Native

Book Description

Welcome to your big-picture guide to the React ecosystem.

If you’re new to React and looking to become a professional React developer, this book is for you. This updated fifth edition reflects the current state of React, including React framework coverage as well as TypeScript.

Part 1 introduces you to React. You’ll discover JSX syntax, hooks, functional components, and event handling, learn techniques to fetch data from a server, and tackle the tricky problem of state management. Once you’re comfortable with writing React in JavaScript, you’ll pick up TypeScript development in later chapters.

Part 2 transitions you into React Native for mobile development. React Native goes hand-in-hand with React. With your React knowledge behind you, you’ll appreciate where and how React Native differs as you write shared components for Android and iOS apps. You’ll learn how to build responsive layouts, use animations, and implement geolocation.

By the end of this book, you’ll have a big-picture view of React and React Native and be able to build applications with both.

What you will learn

• Explore React architecture, component properties, state, and context
• Work with React Hooks for handling functions and components
• Fetch data from a server using the Fetch API, GraphQL, and WebSockets
• Dive into internal and external state management strategies
• Build robust user interfaces (UIs) for mobile and desktop apps using Material-UI
• Perform unit testing for your components with Vitest and mocking
• Manage app performance with server-side rendering, lazy components, and Suspense

Who this book is for

This book is for any JavaScript or TypeScript developer who wants to start learning how to use React and React Native for web and mobile app development.

No prior knowledge of React or React Native is required. However, a working knowledge of JavaScript is necessary to be able to follow along the content covered.

Table of Contents

1. Why React?
2. Rendering with JSX
3. Understanding React Components and Hooks
4. Event Handling in the React Way
5. Crafting Reusable Components
6. Type-Checking and Validation with TypeScript
7. Handling Navigation with Routes
8. Code Splitting Using Lazy Components and Suspense
9. User Interface Framework Components
10. High-Performance State Updates
11. Fetching Data from a Server
12. State Management in React
13. Server-Side Rendering
14. Unit Testing in React
15. Why React Native?
16. React Native Under the Hood
17. Kickstarting React Native Projects
18. Building Responsive Layouts with Flexbox
19. Navigating Between Screens
20. Rendering Item Lists
21. Geolocation and Maps
22. Collecting User Input
23. Responding to User Gestures
24. Showing Progress
25. Displaying Modal Screens
26. Using Animations
27. Controlling Image Displays
28. Going Offline

Mikhail Sakhniuk is Software Engineer with high proficiency in JavaScript, React and React Native. He has more than 5 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He has worked for startups, fintech companies, and product companies with more than 20 million users. Currently, Mikhail is working at Miro as a Frontend Engineer. In addition, he owns and maintains a few open-source projects. He also shares his experience and knowledge through books and articles.

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.