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Professional React Native

By : Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
Book Image

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)
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Part 1: Getting Started with React Native
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Part 2: Building World-Class Apps with React Native
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Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Using boilerplate solutions

Boilerplate solutions make it easy to set up a project with a solid architecture. This can be very helpful, but you should be aware of the trade-offs that come with these boilerplate solutions. Additionally, you should know exactly what you want because there are completely different solutions out there.

First, a boilerplate solution in this context is everything that creates code for you to start without having to configure everything on your own. This can be anything, from a simple template that has built-in TypeScript support but nothing else to a complete CLI solution that brings you solutions for navigation, state management, fonts, animations, connection, and more such as the Ignite CLI by Infinite Red.

Because there is such a wide range of what a boilerplate solution consists of, it’s hard to make general assumptions about them. Nevertheless, what can be said is that the more that is packed into the boilerplate solution, the bigger...