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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)

Sending data to a remote API

In the previous recipe, we covered how to get data from an API using fetch. In this recipe, we will learn how to POST data to the same API. This app will emulate creating a forum post, and the request for the post will have title, body, and user parameters.

Getting ready

Before going through this recipe, we need to create a new empty app named remote-api-post.

In this recipe, we will also be using the very popular axios package for handling our API requests. You can install it via the Terminal with yarn:

yarn add axios

Alternatively, you can use npm:

npm install axios --save

How to do it...

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