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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)

Getting familiar with a list of native APIs covered by React Native

Now it's time to take an overview of React Native APIs and what we have out-of-the-box. Note that if you are using Create react app, in addition to React Native APIs, you have lots of APIs from Expo.

While there is a huge list of these APIs that is being added to on a regular basis, Expo is a community project, and even though it gives you access to lots of things, it limits you to having an Expo account and using Expo dev tools, so Expo won't be covered in this book, but you can read about it at https://docs.expo.io/.

For the sake of simplicity, I divided React Native APIs into several behavioral groups instead of dividing them by cross-platform, IOS, and Android APIs. There is no meaning to these groups in React Native and is used in the book only to group them logically.

Note that an API that has...