What this book covers

This book covers the following three parts:

  • React: Chapter 1 to 11
  • React Native: Chapter 12 to 23
  • React Architecture: Chapter 23 to 26

Part I: React

Chapter 1, Why React?, covers the basics of what React really is, and why you want to use it.

Chapter 2, Rendering with JSX, explains that JSX is the syntax used by React to render content. HTML is the most common output, but JSX can be used to render many things, such as native UI components.

Chapter 3, Understanding Properties and State, shows how properties are passed to components, and how state re-renders components when it changes.

Chapter 4, Event Handling—The React Way, explains that events in React are specified in JSX. There are subtleties with how React processes events, ...

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