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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

So, it was a long journey to explore all the components of the React Native framework. After exploring all components and lots of examples on how they can be used, we dove into learning Navigation in React Native. We've created a basic skeleton app for our future project, whatsAppclone. From now on, we will build real-world examples and apps. During this chapter, you've probably seen errors if you forgot to include some component or had a syntax error. Before we continue to style our whatsAppclone and working on actual screens in Chapter 5, Bringing the power of flexbox to native world, we need to pause and talk about debugging, performance, and testing of your React Native apps. That is what is awaiting you in the next chapter. So, buckle up and enjoy the ride.