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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)

Linters and code style guide

In this section, we will take a look at quite a different set of patterns, namely, patterns on how to structure your code. Over the years, there have been tens of approaches to styling, and the general rule is this: the more people, the more preferred ways there are.

Hence, the crucial point of setting up the project is selecting your style guide, and your set of defined and precise rules. This will save enormous amounts of time for you as it removes any potential discussion.

In an era of advanced IDEs, it is possible to quickly reformat a whole code base in seconds. This will come in handy in case you need to allow for small future changes to the style of your code.

Adding a linter to create a React Native app

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