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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to structure large-scale or multi-platform products. You are now able to create a project structure that works for large-scale and long-running projects.

You also created a clone of your example React Native mobile app on the web and understood why this isn’t always the best idea. You then learned how to create multi-platform applications that meet user expectations while keeping a high percentage of shared code.

In the last section of this chapter, you learned how to create, release, and maintain your own libraries, what the difference between JavaScript-only libraries and libraries with native code is, and how to only publish these libraries to selected people.

After focusing on creating a good structure for the code base itself, in the next chapter, we’ll focus on how to implement well-working processes and how to support these processes with Continuous Integration (CI) tools.