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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)
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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

Creating a collaborative development workflow

In large-scale projects, one of the most important things is up-to-date information. Typically, in those projects, a lot of people have to be coordinated and multiple project parts have to work together to build a complex product. While information is important, it shouldn’t limit development speed.

So, we have to create a workflow that can be supported with automation to fulfill both requirements. The following diagram shows the important parts of this workflow:

Figure 11.2 – Workflow automation setup

As you can see, four technical parts are needed for the workflow. These are as follows:

  • Single Point of Information: All information is centralized here. Normally, this is an issue tracker where every task, bug, or feature request is created as an issue. Examples include Jira, ClickUp, GitLab issues, and GitHub issues.
  • Code Management: This is where your source code is stored. It should...