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Mastering React Native

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Mastering React Native

Overview of this book

React Native has completely revolutionized mobile development by empowering JavaScript developers to build world-class mobile apps that run natively on mobile platforms. This book will show you how to apply JavaScript and other front-end skills to build cross-platform React Native applications for iOS and Android using a single codebase. This book will provide you with all the React Native building blocks necessary to become an expert. We’ll give you a brief explanation of the numerous native components and APIs that come bundled with React Native including Images, Views, ListViews, WebViews, and much more. You will learn to utilize form inputs in React Native. You’ll get an overview of Facebook’s Flux data architecture and then apply Redux to manage data with a remote API. You will also learn to animate different parts of your application, as well as routing using React Native’s navigation APIs. By the end of the book, you will be able to build cutting-edge applications using the React Native framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering React Native
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Deploying our application


Now that we have a fully featured, well-tested, and performant application, it is time to get it into the hands of our users. In this section, we'll briefly go through the steps involved in getting an application into a mobile app store, focusing on the parts of the process that are specific to React Native.

Remove debugging code

No matter where we plan on distributing our application, we will want to ensure that we remove any code that is specific to debugging from our production application build. Some of this, including things such as React PropTypes, will be done for us in the React library, but occasionally we will need to do it ourselves.

One example of code that can be removed from the production build is redux-logger. This tool is very helpful when we're developing an application, but it has no business in a production application. Not only is it superfluous extra weight for our JavaScript asset, but it also impacts performance. In React Native JavaScript applications...