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React Native - Building Mobile Apps with JavaScript

By : Vladimir Novick
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React Native - Building Mobile Apps with JavaScript

By: Vladimir Novick

Overview of this book

<p>The emergence of React Native has made creating mobile apps in JavaScript easier for developers. This book introduces you to the React Native framework and the mobile apps development process. It starts with how React Native fits into the world of hybrid apps, and why it’s a popular framework. You’ll learn how React Native works under the hood--compiling JavaScript to Native code to bridge JavaScript and native apps. Also, you’ll learn how to write React Native components and use the ReactJS way of structuring your app. Understand how to use the industry standard Redux architecture as well as MobX--a newly emerging approach for state management--making your apps more robust and scalable.</p> <p>The mobile native world can be intimidating, with lots of platform-specific APIs. In this book, you’ll learn about the most important APIs with help of the real-world examples. You’ll also learn about the community packages that can help speed up your development. The book explains how to use these packages with JavaScript code, include native modules in your application, and write the modules yourself. Throughout the book, you will see examples of WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube apps and learn how to recreate them. You’ll also learn debugging and testing techniques, authentication, dealing with real data, and much more.</p> <p>At the end we will walk through design to production process of Twitter app clone and will explain application release process to App Store and Play Store</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Integrating React Native with the existing apps

Due to the extensible structure of React Native, it can be easily integrated with the existing apps. There are a set of steps that should be performed when integrating your existing application with React Native:

  • Create a new folder for your project with the iOS or Android folder inside. Copy your iOS or Android existing apps inside the iOS or Android folders.
  • run npm init in the root folder to generate the npm package in your folder.
  • Add the following commands to your package.json:
{   
"name": "MyReactNativeApp",
"version": "0.0.1",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"start": "node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start"
}
}

Then install all your JavaScript dependencies:

npm install --save react react-native

After setting...