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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned three things--we dove deeper into navigating, got familiar with lots of open source libraries, and learned how we can bridge the native world with the JavaScript world using React Native's extensible nature. We started by learning about navigators, how they are used, and how exactly we structure navigation for huge applications, such as YouTube. Then, we took a look at the list of best open source packages. We saw packages dealing with the UI, animations, icons, data, social providers, additional APIs, and so on. After we got familiar with a small subset of packages available on npm, we dove deeper into Objective-C and Java code to understand how native modules can be exposed to the JavaScript world. Finally, we discussed what steps should be taken if you want to integrate a React Native app as a view inside your existing application.

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