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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)

Communicating with a remote API

We are currently loading the bookmarks from hardcoded data in the action. In a real app, we're much more likely to be getting data back from an API. In this recipe, we'll use a Redux middleware to help with the process of fetching data from an API.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we'll be using axios to make all AJAX requests. Install it with npm:

npm install --save axios

Or you can install it with yarn:

yarn add axios

For this recipe, we'll be using the Redux middleware, redux-promise-middleware. Install the package with npm:

npm install --save redux-promise-middleware

Or you can install it with yarn:

yarn add redux-promise-middleware

This middleware will create and automatically...