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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

Structuring Large-Scale, Multi-Platform Projects

I wholeheartedly believe that the structure of a software project is one of the key factors in deciding success or failure. This includes the application architecture, as well as the development process and the whole project organization.

The bigger the project is, the more developers that work on the project, and the longer a project runs, the more important it is to have a good project structure. But small projects can also fail because of a bad structure. So, most of this chapter is also applicable to smaller projects.

The project structure is especially important when using React Native to develop an application for multiple platforms, not only for iOS and Android. Different platforms have different needs and bring different user expectations. The best example to showcase this is the difference between iOS and Android and the web.

As already mentioned in Chapter 4, Styling, Storage, and Navigation in React Native, the concept...