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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

By : Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz
Book Image

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)

Fetching data with the built-in function

To begin, let's start with something fairly basic. React Native implements the Fetch API, which is nowadays a standard for making REST API calls.

Refactoring to activity indicator

Currently, we have a default task list being loaded from the file in taskReducer.js. To be honest, loading from either the file or API can be time consuming. It will be better initially to set the task list to empty the array and provide feedback to the user with a spinner or text message, informing them that the data is being loaded. We will implement this along with the change to the Fetch API.

First, remove data import from the file in the reducer. Change the declaration from the following:

(state...