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Professional React Native

By : Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
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Professional React Native

By: Alexander Benedikt Kuttig

Overview of this book

The React Native framework offers a range of powerful features that make it possible to efficiently build high-quality, easy-to-maintain frontend applications across multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and the web, helping you save both time and money. And this book is your key to unlocking its capabilities. Professional React Native provides the ultimate coverage of essential concepts, best practices, advanced processes, and tips for everyday developer problems. The book makes it easy to understand how React Native works under the hood using step-by-step explanations and practical examples so you can use this knowledge to develop highly performant apps. As you follow along, you'll learn the difference between React and React Native, navigate the React Native ecosystem, and revisit the basics of JavaScript and TypeScript needed to create a React Native application. What’s more, you’ll work with animations and even control your app with gestures. Finally, you'll be able to structure larger apps and improve developer efficiency through automated processes, testing, and continuous integration. By the end of this React native app development book, you'll have gained the confidence to build high-performance apps for multiple platforms, even on a bigger scale.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with React Native
5
Part 2: Building World-Class Apps with React Native
12
Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Essential Tools for Improving React Native Development

React Native is a framework with a very strong developer community. During the last year, there was an evolutionary growth of a large variety of tools and libraries, making the development of React Native apps a lot easier and a lot more comfortable.

Besides the tools and libraries developed especially for React Native, you can also use a lot of things in the plain React ecosystem. This is because most of these things are compatible with the JavaScript/React part of any React Native app.

Being aware of the best tools and libraries and how to use them is really useful because it saves you a lot of time and can greatly improve the quality of your code and product.

Especially when you are working on bigger projects, some tools are an absolute must-have to ensure good collaboration in a bigger team.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • How to improve code quality with type safety, linters...