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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

Understanding the NYT API data


Before going too far into the detail of our Redux refactoring endeavor, let's first review the data we'll ultimately be consuming from the NYT API. The NYT API offers a few options, including books, movie reviews, event listings, and so forth. We'll be using the Top Stories (V2) API. It provides a list of articles in both JSON and JSONP format across a variety of sections, including world, national, opinion, and so forth. But given that this is a book about technology, we're going to use the technology section. To make a request to the NYT API technology section, you'll need to form an http get request:

https://api.nytimes.com/svc/topstories/v2/technology.json?api-key=your-api-key

The portion of the URI following v2/ is where you specify both the section and the format. In our case, we're interested in technology in JSON format, thus technology.json. Additionally, you must append your API key in the query string. You can register for an API key by going to http...