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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

Redux


Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps based on simple principles:

  • The whole state of your app is stored in an object tree inside a single store
  • The only way to change the state tree is to emit an action, an object describing what happened
  • To specify how the actions transform the state tree, you write pure reducers

Its popularity comes from the degree of consistency, testability, and developer experience that can be derived from its use in any kind of code base (frontend or backend). It's also simple to reason and master due to its strict unidirectional data flow:

User triggers and Actions that are processed by Reducers, which are just pure functions applying changes to the state based on that Action. The resulting state is saved in a single Store, which is used by the View in our app to display the current state of the application.

Redux is a complex topic that falls out of the scope of this book, but it will be extensively used throughout some of the chapters in this...