React and React Native: Fifth Edition

Build Cross-Platform Apps with React and React Native 💻

React and React Native: Fifth Edition is a 2024 Packt Publishing guide by Mikhail Sakhniuk and Adam Boduch. It focuses on building cross-platform JavaScript and TypeScript applications for the web, desktop, and mobile, using React for UI development and React Native for native mobile targets. The fifth edition is dated April 2024 and builds on four previous editions.

What the Book Covers

Starting with the reasons React became a popular choice for interface work, the book moves through JSX, component structure, hooks, state, event handling, and reusable component patterns. These foundations prepare you for the cross-platform development promised by the title, where React concepts extend into React Native.

Inside the React Fundamentals

• Why React? — declarative UI, data changes over time, performance, and abstraction.
• JSX and rendering — built-in tags, nested elements, JavaScript expressions, dynamic values, events, and fragments.
• Components and hooks — props, state, side effects, context, useMemo, useCallback, and useRef.
• Event handling — handler functions, inline handlers, synthetic events, and event pooling.
• Reusable components — refactoring monolithic components into focused, maintainable pieces.

React and React Native Together 📱

The title and subtitle make the book’s scope clear: it is not only about React for the browser. It also addresses React Native, the framework for building mobile applications with JavaScript and TypeScript. That combination is useful for developers who want to share concepts, patterns, and code strategies across web, desktop, and mobile projects.

Who It Is For

This fifth edition begins with fundamentals such as JSX and component basics, so it can support readers who are new to React while still offering structure for developers extending their skills into React Native. A working knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript will help you follow the examples and apply the patterns to real projects.

Why This Edition Matters

Published in April 2024, the fifth edition represents the latest iteration of a guide that began in 2017. It brings the authors’ combined experience to a single resource for cross-platform interface development, with a practical focus on the building blocks of React and React Native.

Digital Delights Digital Edition

Digital Delights offers this Packt guide as a digital ebook, making it easy to search, reference, and carry across devices. If you are building your next web, desktop, or mobile interface with React and React Native, this edition provides a structured path through the core ideas and patterns.