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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)

Using Redux stores

It took me a while to figure out how to advertise Redux to you. Most likely, you expect it is some sort of Store implementation that will be used within Flux. This is true; however, there is more to it than that. Redux is a brilliant piece of code that makes a great tool. This tool can be used in many ways in many different projects. In this book, I strive to teach you to think in React and Redux.

This introduction was inspired by a useful talk from Cheng Lou, called Taming the Meta Language, and delivered at React Conf 2017.
Watch it at https://goo.gl/2SkWAj.

Minimal Redux application example

Before I show you the Redux architecture, let's see it in action. It is vital to get a feeling for what the...