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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

Automated Testing for React Native Apps

Automating tests is one of the most important things you must do when your project grows. It can help ensure a certain level of quality of your application and can enable you to run faster release cycles without introducing bugs in every release. I recommend writing automated tests for your application as soon as possible.

It is much easier to start writing tests right from the beginning because then, you are forced to structure your code in a way that works for automated testing. It can be hard to refactor an application to use automated testing when this wasn’t in focus at the beginning.

In this chapter, you will learn about automated testing in general and how to use automated testing in React Native apps. You will learn about the different tools and frameworks for different types of automated testing. These tools and frameworks are used in production by some of the most widely used apps in the world, so I recommend using them...