There are lots of React components available. How do I know which ones are usable on React Native platform (IOS and Android)?
Web React components use DOM elements to display (ex. div, h1, table, etc) but these are not supported by React Native. You'll need to find libraries/components made specifically for React Native.
I doubt there are components that supports both, thus it should be fairly easy to figure out if it's made for React Native or not. As of now, if the creator does not specifically say that they made for React Native, it probably does not work on React Native.
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I want to study a course about React, but I don't know couple of things, like:
What is the difference between React, ReactJS, and React Native ?
Well, if there is a big difference, What is the best one of them to study ?
I am really looking forward to study it, so if you got any information on the best way to start learning this course, I would appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
React and React.Js is one and the same.
React / ReactJs
ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library used to build the user interface for Web Applications. It is responsible only for the view layer of the application. It provides developers to compose complex UIs from a small and isolated piece of code called "components." ReactJS made of two parts first is components, that are the pieces that contain HTML code and what you want to see in the user interface, and the second one is HTML document where all your components will be rendered.
React Native
React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework used for developing a mobile application for iOS Android, and Windows. It uses only JavaScript to build a cross-platform mobile app. React Native is same as React, but it uses native components instead of using web components as building blocks. It targets mobile platforms rather than the browser.
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What is the best one of them to study ?
React and React native both solves different kind of problem. React is common library between react and react-native which provides supports for hooks and generate virtual dom.
react-dom will render content on web using virtual dom created by react.
However on other side react-native will create bundle for android and iOS.
Main differences between Reactjs and React Native
When it comes to a web platform, Reactjs can be defined as a base
derivative of React DOM, while React Native acts as a base
derivative by keeping workflow and syntax the same alongside
altering components.
React is a JavaScript library that can help your developers in
building a highly responsive UI Layer and React Native on the other
hand is a complete framework to develop cross-platform applications.
Virtual DOM is used to extract browser code in React; native APIs
help in rendering components in mobile in React Native.
In React Native, UI is rendered with the help of JSX but the
applications curated with Reactjs extract HTML in UI.
For styling in Reactjs, CSS is used, and React Native platform
requires a stylesheet for styling.
Using CSS, you can carry out animation in Reactjs; for animation in
React Native, you need to use an animated API.
I am currently studying RN by myself, without prior knowledge in React. A lot of things seem to exist in both such as Redux and hooks. Many of the resources I find refer to React in the title (e.g "Redux Crash Course With React").
My question is: where does the line cross between React and React Native? Would I be fine studyig form these resources that refer to React, or would that just confuse me?
I'm trying to understand a go to approach to understand which resource I'd be fine with and which would be irrelevant.
React Native contains React library to use it as front-end library.
Most of usages of React are the same for React-Native. And it is same for Redux too.
React-Native must have other libraries to build applications that can run on both of Android and iOS.
Also it has middleware libraries that allow us to use most of native libraries' functionalities. As an example you can check Alert directory out. It is used for to show native Android alert dialogs.
Good luck..
Both react and react native use javascript to create the user interface we need but the difference is in the rendering, style and bundling and you should know that react native is a framework itself but react.js is a library. the main difference:
---React-Native doesn’t use HTML to render the app, but provides alternative components that work in a similar way. Those React-Native components map the actual real native iOS or Android UI components that get rendered on the app.
---With React-Native, you’ll have to learn a completely new way to animate the different components of your app with Javascript.
--- navigating between pages are totally different!!!
so we conclude that it's better to study references based on RN not react.js . but some functionalities such as redux or hooks or a lot of it's components are exactly the same and you can study react.js references for them. only the 3 differents that i said above are important.
I'm used to writing React Native code, but I'm currently working on a React App, so I was wondering is there is something like React Native Elements but for React as such.
https://react-native-training.github.io/react-native-elements/
If I understand your question correctly, there are many UI component libraries suitable for React App development. A few that come to mind are:
Material-UI
React components that implement Google's Material Design.
https://material-ui.com/
React-Bootstrap
The most popular front-end framework, rebuilt for React.
https://element.eleme.io/#/en-US
Element-React
Element was initially written in Vue, which has many elegant UI components, but we also love React, so we forked it for the React community.
https://github.com/elemefe/element-react
Recently I have a requirement where I need to use the react native component in react web app. I have searched and found one component i.e React Native Web.
That converts the react native component to work in react web app. Although I am having some errors but I actually wanted to confirm that whether it is doable to use the react native component in react web app SO that whenever we make changes in React Native Component, that will automatically be handled to be shown in the web. Because for react-native-web, we need to provide the react native file that will be converted into the web view. But how we can make sure that whenever we update the mobile component, changes will automatically be reflected on the web without making any changes.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Yeah , U can use react-native-web.
But not all components working in react-native works on react-native-web , so u have to take care of those components and then u can maintain same codebase for both.
Further more, u can refer to https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web modules and components section
Is it possible to use all the reactjs components in react native app?If no,what is the best way to switch between react js and react native?
If an app is done using react js is it necessary(Compulsory) to use redux in that?
There are two main points:
1.The base UI components in React (DOM) and React Native are different.
2.The ‘React’ objects in React and React Native are different (React Native removes the DOM-specific stuff adds a lot of native-specific code).
please check this link for more details:
https://medium.com/#aakashns/sharing-components-between-react-and-react-native-f6ce3713658a#.oa4my8p36
I avoid these types of quests because React JS UI components built for the web have different semantics than React JS UI components built for React Native.
React Native doesn't have <div/> or <img/> or a DOM for that matter.
React Native uses React JS components that bind to native views, and things like CSS are so very different than that from the Web.
The only way you'd be able to use a React JS UI component in a React Native app is by making it 100% of the height and width of an embedded webview. It's possible (i've done it for testing purposes), but not ideal.
Is it possible to use all the reactjs components in react native app?
React Native uses other types of components which aren't related to HTML, but to iOS and Android views. Even the styling is slightly different.
If no,what is the best way to switch between react js and react native?
You can still reuse other parts of your code. If you use redux, for example, you should keep using almost the same code.
If an app is done using react js is it necessary(Compulsory) to use redux in that?
No, redux is just an implementation of the flux architecture. There are others, but redux is the most popular one.
If your component contains pure js logic, then yes. React js is meant for Web, where we make use of web semantic. React native extends mobile native UI components.