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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

Reusing code with your own libraries

There are many good reasons to create your own library. Sharing code between different projects for different platforms is definitely one of them. But with your own library, you can also achieve the following things:

  • Ensure consistent design in all your applications: When you are working in a company that provides multiple applications, it’s a good idea to create a UI library that provides UI components for all these applications. This ensures a consistent design system.
  • Simplify backend connection: You can extract your services to a library, which can then be used in all your projects. This ensures a unified backend connection layer.
  • Define responsibilities: Every library can be maintained by its own maintainer or team. With this library approach, you can define clear responsibilities.
  • Provide additional functionality: You can also write your own library to provide native functionality that isn’t available in the...