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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)

Introduction to Flux

The Flux architecture creates some restrictions on communication between components. The main principle is that of ubiquitous actions. The application view layer responds to user actions by sending action objects to a Dispatcher. The Dispatcher's role is to send every action to subscribed stores. You can have many stores and each one can act differently in response to the user's action.

For instance, imagine you are building a cart-based application. A user can tap the screen to add some item to the cart, upon which the respective action is dispatched and your cart store reacts to it. Also, an analytics store may track that such an item has been added to the user's cart. Both react to the same action object and use the information as needed. In the end, the view layer is updated with the new state.

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