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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've learned how to make your components visual compelling. We started with understanding the flexbox layout algorithm and followed with differences between React Native styling and CSS. They are very similar, however, we covered important differences between the two. Then, we worked a bit on our whatsAppClone application to make it more attractive visually. After completing the WhatsApp Chat screen look and feel, we've covered techniques and tips for styling our React Native applications. Now that we reached the end of this chapter, I challenge you to take all that you've learned by now and try to create the whatsAppClone app yourself. We focused only on the chat screen.

In Chapter 6, Animating React Native components, we will continue creating our WhatsApp application, but this time we will make it look even greater by learning how to...