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React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

By : Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

By: Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

React Native helps web and mobile developers to build cross-platform apps that perform at the same level as any other natively developed app. The range of apps that can be built using this library is huge. From e-commerce to games, React Native is a good fit for any mobile project due to its flexibility and extendable nature. This project-based book consists of four standalone projects. Each project will help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone car booking 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 is ideal for developers who want to build amazing cross-platform apps with React Native. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from the content of Packt's React Native Blueprints by Emilio Rodriguez Martinez.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary


We covered several important topics for most of the modern enterprise apps: user management, data synchronization, complex app state, and handling forms. This is a complete app, which we manage to fix with a small code base and the help of MobX and Firebase.

Firebase is very capable of handling this app in production with a large number of users, but building our own backend system should not be a complex task, especially if we have experience in working with socket.io and real-time databases.

There are some aspects missing in this lesson such as handling security (which can be done fully within Firebase) or creating chat rooms for more than two users. In any case, these aspects fall out of React Native's environment, so they were intentionally left out.

After finishing this lesson, we should be able to build any app on top of Firebase and MobX as we covered the most used user cases on both pieces of technology. Of book, there are some more complex cases that were left out, but they...