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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

Chapter 8. E-Commerce App

Online shopping is something most retailers have adopted, but users are slowly migrating from websites to mobile apps. That's why e-commerce has set a strong focus on responsive websites, which can be seamlessly accessed from a desktop computer or a mobile browser. Along with that, users also demand higher standards of quality which cannot always be met by even the most responsive websites. Loading times, laggy animations, non-native components, or a lack of native features may hurt user experiences resulting in low conversion rates.

Building our e-commerce app in React Native can reduce the development efforts required due to the possibility of reusing some web components, which were already designed for the web (using React.js). Besides that, we can reduce the time to market and development costs, making React Native a very attractive tool for small and medium-sized businesses willing to sell their products or services online.

In this chapter, we will focus on building...