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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

By : Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz
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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

By: Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz

Overview of this book

React Native helps developers reuse code across different mobile platforms like iOS and Android. This book will show you effective design patterns in the React Native world and will make you ready for professional development in big teams. The book will focus only on the patterns that are relevant to JavaScript, ECMAScript, React and React Native. However, you can successfully transfer a lot of the skills and techniques to other languages. I call them “Idea patterns”. This book will start with the most standard development patterns in React like component building patterns, styling patterns in React Native and then extend these patterns to your mobile application using real world practical examples. Each chapter comes with full, separate source code of applications that you can build and run on your phone. The book is also diving into architectural patterns. Especially how to adapt MVC to React environment. You will learn Flux architecture and how Redux is implementing it. Each approach will be presented with its pros and cons. You will learn how to work with external data sources using libraries like Redux thunk and Redux Saga. The end goal is the ability to recognize the best solution for a given problem for your next mobile application.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

DI with React context

In the previous section, we used DI in a very straightforward way by just injecting components. React comes with its own mechanism for DI.

React context can be used to inject dependencies into components that are very far in the chain from the container component. This makes React context a great fit for global dependencies that are reused across the whole application.

Good examples of such a global dependency are a theme configuration, a logger, a dispatcher, a logged in user object, or language options.

Using the React Context API

To learn about the React Context API, we will use a simple language selector. I have created a component that allows us to select one of two languages, either English or Polish...