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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

Summary

Now, it’s time to wrap up this chapter. First, you learned what the terms workflow automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery mean and which of them work for app development. Then, you considered a development process you can use in large-scale projects.

Next, you learned how to support this process through workflow automation with simple workflow automation tools such as GitHub Actions. Finally, you learned about specialized workflow automation tools such as Bitrise so that you can build, sign, and deploy your iOS and Android apps.

One topic that is especially important when it comes to workflow automation was left out in this chapter – testing. Automated testing is important during the development phase, as well as before shipping your releases. Therefore, we’ll have a detailed look at automated testing in the next chapter.