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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


This app will use Redux, as its state management library, which will define the folder structure we will be using throughout this chapter. Let's start by initializing the project through React Native's CLI:

react-native init --version="0.48.3" ecommerce

As we have seen in previous chapters where we used Redux, we need our folder structure to accommodate different module types:  reducersactionscomponentsscreens, and api calls. We will do this in the following folder structure:

Apart from the folder structure created by React Native's CLI, we added the following folders and files:

  • src/components: This will hold the reusable visual components.
  • src/reducers: This will store the reducers, which modify the state of the app by detecting which actions were triggered.
  • src/screens: This will store all the different visual containers connecting them to the app state through Redux.
  • src/api.js: By the end of the chapter, we will have all the required API calls mocked inside...