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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniel Ward
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Book Image

React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Daniel Ward

Overview of this book

If you are a developer looking to create mobile applications with maximized code reusability and minimized cost, React Native is what you need. With this practical guide, you’ll be able to build attractive UIs, tackle common problems in mobile development, and achieve improved performance in mobile environments. This book starts by covering the common techniques for React Native customization and helps you set up your development platforms. Over the course of the book, you’ll work through a wide variety of recipes that help you create, style, and animate your apps with built-in React Native and custom third-party components. You’ll also develop real-world browser-based authentication, build a fully functional audio player, and integrate Google Maps in your apps. This book will help you explore different strategies for working with data, including leveraging the popular Redux library and optimizing your app’s dataflow. You’ll also learn how to write native device functionality for new and existing React Native projects and how app deployment works. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with tips and tricks to write efficient code and have the skills to build full iOS and Android applications using React Native.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Introduction

React Native was introduced as a solution to build native applications using JavaScript, with the goal of granting more developers the ability to build truly native applications for multiple platforms. As a consequence of building a React Native application with a team, it can be common for JavaScript developers and native developers to work closely together.

One of the advantages of React Native's ability to render native UI views is that they can be easily embedded inside existing native apps. It is not uncommon for companies to already have sophisticated native apps that are critical to their line of business. There may be no immediate need to rewrite their entire codebase in React Native if the app is not broken. In such a case, React Native can be leveraged by both JavaScript and native developers to write React Native code that can be integrated into an...