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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)

React Native animated

As we build our application, we need to focus on the user experience (UX). One part of it is animations that make our screens more vibrant and provide instant feedback on the actions. If you played with our application on your own, you could see that when you click the like/dislike icon, it makes a little blink. That effect comes out of the box with TouchableOpacity. It's time to learn how we can implement such features on our own.

What are animations?

When I first read the Animated library documentation I freaked out. There are so many new words that you will need to get used to. Instead of diving right into them, let's understand what animations really are.

Animation is a change to a component...