Day: November 2, 2024

TextInput is provided by React native framework to implement simple text input control. Text input is one of the very basic controls of UI. Whether it is auto-complete, form, text input is a must used control in UI of application. TextInput component accepts placeholder value as props. When a user starts changing the text then […]

Below image summarise the lifecycle methods exposed by react component and the order in which lifecycle methods are being called by React. React 16 was a major release for ReactJS. With this version react has marked some of the lifecycle methods like componentWillRecieveProps, ComponentWillUpdate as deprecated. In a later release of React, the framework will […]

Though we can implement in both functional and class-based way, there are few fundamental differences between the two of them:

here are two ways of writing a react component Example of functional component Example of class-based component cases are known as a presentational or dumb component. The functional component gets information via props from its parent component and renders the information. You can see that the functional component accepts props as an argument. ES6 arrow […]

Though most of the CSS properties works in the same way in React native still there are few differences in CSS property values between a browser and React native: Apart from the above difference, most of the CSS properties work exactly the same as they work in a browser.

By default, the main axis is the vertical axis and cross axis is the horizontal axis in React native. Since justifyContent and alignItems property works based on the main axis and cross axis, so justifyContent will align flex items vertically and alignItems will layout flex item horizontally. This default value of the main axis and […]

You can think of alignItems as justifyContent behaviour for cross axis. Cross-axis in case if React native is the horizontal axis. CSS alignItems property sets the alignSelf value on all direct children as a group. In Flexbox, it controls the alignment of items on the cross axis. By default, the cross axis is a horizontal […]

JustifyContent property aligns the flexible container’s items when the items do not use all available space on the main axis. By default, the main axis is a vertical axis in case of React native. Which means justifyContent property aligns child elements of flex parent vertically in React native.  We can use this property to layout […]

CSS Flexbox is used to design a responsive layout easily without using float or position CSS property. Float and position values were used to build any type of UI which are not very easy. Flexbox is added in CSS3. Flexbox is designed to provide a consistent layout on different screen sizes. You will normally use […]

By default, the View component in React Native has its display property set to flex. Flex is a CSS property used to expand and shrink components dynamically based on available space. Setting flex: 1 on a component makes it take up all the available space. If a parent element has flex: 1, its child elements will evenly distribute the available space among themselves.  […]