React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

1. First, we'll need to open the App.js file and import the dependencies we'll be using:

import React, { Component } from 'react';import axios from 'axios';import {  Alert,  ScrollView,  StyleSheet,  Text,  TextInput,  TouchableOpacity,  SafeAreaView,} from 'react-native';

2. We'll define the App class with a state object that has three properties. The title and body properties will be used for making the request, and results will hold the API's response:

const endpoint = 'http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts';export default class App extends Component {  state = {    results: '',    title: '',    body: '',  };  const styles = StyleSheet.create({ 
    // Defined later 
  }); 
}

3. After saving a new post, we will request all of the posts from the API. ...