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Sonyl Nagale
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Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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React and React Native

Originally created by Jordan Walke at Facebook in 2013, React has quickly evolved into one of the leading user interface libraries currently in use. In contrast with Angular, React does not seek to be a complete framework, but rather focuses on specific parts of the web workflow. Since web pages are inherently stateless (that is, no real information is transferred from page to page), SPAs aim to store certain pieces of state in JavaScript memory, enabling subsequent views to be populated with data. React is a prime example of how this type of architecture works while still not encompassing the entire framework paradigm. In MVC terminology, React deals with the view layer.

Advantages of React

Since React itself only deals with views, it relies on other libraries to round out its feature set, such as React Router and Hooks. That is, the base architecture of React is designed to be modular and have add-ons used to do other parts of the workflow. At the moment, it&apos...

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Published in: Sep 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838648121

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Sonyl Nagale

Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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