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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

Folder structure


The following structure includes components that we will wind up building in this very chapter:

|Expenses 
|__app 
|____components 
|______AddExpenses 
|______AddExpensesModal 
|______CurrentMonthExpenses 
|______EnterBudget 
|______ExpandableCell 
|______ExpenseRow 
|____utils 
|______dateMethods.js 
|______storageMethods.js 
|____App.js 
|____styles.js 
|__ios 
|__index.ios.js 

Utilities

The utils folder stores helper methods that we will be using in our application. The dateMethods deals with the different methods that we will use to get different parts of the date, while storageMethods handles access to AsyncStorage.

Our first bullet point from app planning says that upon launching the app, if a budget for this month has not yet been set, it should ask the user to input their monthly goal and save it into AsyncStorage.

Based on the preceding intent, we want to do the following things:

  • Grab the current month and year
  • Retrieve the object storing our expenses in AsyncStorage and...