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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 navigation alternatives

Usually, if you are a beginner and you try to Google for React Native navigation, you will end up with a headache. The number of available alternatives is high. There are a few reasons why this is so:

  • Some early libraries are not maintained anymore, as maintainers have simply quit
  • Some companies with resources started a library and then changed their employees focus to other things
  • Some solutions are proven to be inefficient, or a better solution is implemented
  • There is an architectural reason for different approaches, which leads to a need to maintain different solutions

We will focus on the last point here, as it is vital to understand which library fits your needs. We will discuss the solutions so that, at the end of this chapter, you will know which library to choose for your project.

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