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React Native By Example

By : Richard Kho
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React Native By Example

By: Richard Kho

Overview of this book

React Native's ability to build performant mobile applications with JavaScript has resulted in its popularity amongst developers. Developers now have the luxury to create incredible mobile experiences that look and feel native to their platforms with the comfort of a well-known language and the popular React.js library. This book will show you how to build your own native mobile applications for the iOS and Android platforms while leveraging the finesse and simplicity of JavaScript and React. Throughout the book you will build three projects, each of increasing complexity. You will also link up with the third-party Facebook SDK, convert an app to support the Redux architecture, and learn the process involved in making your apps available for sale on the iOS App Store and Google Play. At the end of this book, you will have learned and implemented a wide breadth of core APIs and components found in the React Native framework that are necessary in creating great mobile experiences.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a PostView


At the end of Chapter 5, Third Project - The Facebook Client, we created a FeedListRow component with a TouchableHighlight that fired the following function when pressed:

// Friends/app/components/FeedListRow/index.js 

... 
  _navigateToPostView () { 
    console.log('pushed'); 
  } 
... 

We will build a PostView component that our users will navigate to when the TouchableHighlight component is pressed in FeedListRow and replace the current login within this _navigfateToPostView function to handle that navigation.

This PostView component should, upon loading, look in AsyncStorage for this post's details and load them if it exists. If it does not, then it should make a request to the Facebook Graph API for the post's details and save them into AsyncStorage for future use.

The details that we are interested in, are the post's attachments, comments, and likes. Since each post on Facebook is assigned a unique post ID, we can also save an object...