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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 messagingApp and will be available for iOS and Android devices:

react-native init --version="0.45.1" messagingApp

We will be using MobX to manage state in our app, so we will need a folder for our stores. The rest of the folder structure is standard to most React apps:

We need five screens (Chats, Chat, Login, Profile, and Search), a component (ListItem) and two stores (chats and users), which will be available through the stores/index.js file. There are also two helpers that we will be using to support our app:

  • notifications.js: All the logic related to push notifications will be stored in this file
  • firebase.js: This includes the configuration and initialization of Firebase SDK

Since we will be using MobX and several other dependencies, let's take a look at our package.json file to understand what packages we will be using:

/*** package.json ***/

{
        "name": "messagingApp...