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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)
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Part 1: Getting Started with React Native
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Part 2: Building World-Class Apps with React Native
12
Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Finding and using high-quality UI libraries

UI libraries provide a predefined UI for the most common use cases. There are a lot of different UI libraries you can use for your project. But some are better than others. This section not only names the most popular ones, but it also gives you an idea of what you must look for when doing your own research.

A good UI library should meet the following criteria:

  • Well maintained: As with all libraries, it has to be well maintained. This means there are multiple contributors, there is good code quality, and there are regular releases. This is important to ensure that future version upgrades of React Native are supported.
  • Component-based: A React Native UI library should provide a set of components, which you can use out of the box.
  • Theming: The library should include theming options and be easily adaptable to your colors, fonts, paddings, and margins.
  • Type declarations: A good UI library should have type declarations...