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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

In this section, we will play with a native solution for navigation. React Native Navigation is a wrapper on the native navigation for Android and iOS.

Our goal is to recreate what we have achieved in the previous section, but with React Navigation.

A few words on the setup

One of the biggest challenges you may face in this section is setting up the library. Please follow the most up-to-date installation instructions. Take your time—it may take over 8 hours if you are not familiar with the tools and ecosystem.

Follow the installation instructions at the following link: https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation.

This book uses the API from version 2 of React Native Navigation. To use the...