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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

Summary


React Native, like React for the Web, comes bundled with many components and APIs that give us direct access to native interfaces and functionality. We can use these components and APIs in combination to make more complex components of our own and, eventually, an entire application.

We said this at the beginning of the chapter, but it bears repeating, this list of components, props, and APIs is by no means comprehensive. Some of the components and APIs that were left out will be introduced in later chapters, though some will not. To find a comprehensive list, refer to the React Native documentation.

Before we take our RNNYT application to the next level, we'll first spend the next chapter discussing data management strategies for React applications.