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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

Setting up an app architecture that works for large-scale enterprise projects

When we are talking about large-scale projects and how to set up a suitable app architecture, it makes sense to look at what’s different in these large-scale projects compared to small-team or even single-developer projects.

The following points are the most important ones:

  • The project team is very big: In large-scale projects, you usually have a big team with lots of developers. Often, these developers are scattered all over the world, which means they work in different time zones, have different first languages, and have completely different cultural backgrounds. That said, it is important to have a clear structure and clear responsibilities. Otherwise, your project will fail.
  • Multiple developers will work on the same part of the application: At the latest stage when a deadline is approaching and a feature has to be finished, multiple developers will work on the same feature and the...