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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
12
Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Using React Native to deploy to different platforms

In this section, you’ll learn how to set up your React Native project to be able to support multiple platforms. Since it is the most common use case, we’ll focus a lot on the web here, but the tips and approaches of these sections are also applicable to other platforms such as desktops and TVs.

When creating an application for multiple platforms, there are always two goals. First, you want to support as many platform-specific features as possible and want to give users the look and feel they are used to on this platform. Second, you try to have as much shared code as possible because this makes it easier to maintain and develop your application.

At first sight, these goals seem to be concurrent but there are intelligent ways to get the best of both worlds. Let’s start with the simplest approach.

Using react-native-web to create a clone for web

When creating your application with React Native, you can...