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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 bright future of React Native

When deciding which technology to use, it always plays an important role in how future-proof this technology is. This is especially important in long-running large-scale enterprise projects. So, I decided to end this book with some arguments as to why you can be absolutely sure that React Native is a good choice.

This is particularly interesting because the last years haven’t always been easy for React Native developers. With Flutter, which is based on the very performant two-dimensional (2D) graphics engine Skia, a new solution for cross-platform development emerged and created a huge hype.

Native development got more and more comfortable with the rise of Kotlin and Swift. React Native in the meantime didn’t evolve much. The long-promised refactoring (new architecture), first announced for 2020, took much more time than expected. Some developers started losing faith in React Native.

But this changed in 2022. Now...