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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

Understanding the most important things to make your React Native project a success

In this book, you learned a lot about the technical basics of how to ensure a successful React Native project. But if you already worked on production projects, you know that a software project never works as described in the books. There are always obstacles and problems that occur out of the blue and deadlines that seem impossible to meet.

These tips will ensure that you are able to overcome these obstacles, solve these problems, and finally succeed in a real-world software project. So, let’s start right away with the tips.

Tip 1 – Find a process you never have to work around

A lot of projects I worked on had clearly defined processes from the beginning, but often, there occurred scenarios where someone worked around the process. A very common example of that is the following:

The business side needs a feature or bugfix to be included in today’s release, leading to...