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React Native Blueprints

By : Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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React Native Blueprints

By: Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

Considering the success of the React framework, Facebook recently introduced a new mobile development framework called React Native. With React Native's game-changing approach to hybrid mobile development, you can build native mobile applications that are much more powerful, interactive, and faster by using JavaScript This project-based guide takes you through eight projects to help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and helps you build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone groceries list app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native’s performance by building a full-featured game. This book covers the entire feature set of React Native, starting from the simplest (layout or navigation libraries) to the most advanced (integration with native code) features. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build professional Android and iOS applications using React Native.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up the folder structure


Let's initialize a React Native project using React Native's CLI. The project will be named imageShare and will be available for iOS and Android devices:

react-native init --version="0.44.0" imageShare

In order to use some packages in this app, we will be using a specific version of React Native (0.44.0).

We will be using Redux for our app, so we will create a folder structure in which we can accommodate our reducers, actions, components, screens, and api calls:

Moreover, we have added logo.png in the img folder. For the rest, we have a very standard React Native project. The entry point will be index.ios.js for iOS and index.android.js for Android:

/*** index.ios.js and index.android.js ***/ 

import { AppRegistry } from 'react-native';
import App from './src/main';

AppRegistry.registerComponent('imageShare', () => App);

We have the same implementation for both files as we want to use src/main.js as the common entry point for both platforms.

Let's jump into...