© Akshat Paul and Abhishek Nalwaya 2019
Akshat Paul and Abhishek NalwayaReact Native for Mobile Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4454-8_1

1. Learning the Basics: A Whistle-Stop Tour of React

Akshat Paul1  and Abhishek Nalwaya2
(1)
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
(2)
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

—Lao Tzu

Before you embark on your React Native journey, you must know a little bit about React (also known as ReactJS or React.js). In this chapter, we quickly look at the core concepts of React, which will help you to work on React Native. This chapter introduces the following topics:

  • Introduction to React

  • Virtual Document Object Model (DOM)

  • One-way data flow

  • React installation and setup

  • Creating a first React ...

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