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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)

Flux by example

Before we dive in-depth into Flux, let's create a simple application using the Flux architecture. For this, we will use the Flux library provided by Facebook. The library includes all of the pieces we will need to make the application tick according to the new Flux flow. Install Flux and the immutable libraries. immutable is also crucial for further advantages as we become more familiar with Flux:

yarn add flux immutable

The application we will build in Flux is a Tasks application. The one we have already created will need some tweaking. The first thing to do is create the Dispatcher, Tasks Store, and Task Actions.

The Flux package provides the base for our architecture. For instance, let's instantiate Dispatcher for our Tasks application:

// src / Chapter 4_ Flux patterns / Example 1 / src / data / AppDispatcher.js
import
{ Dispatcher } from 'flux...