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Professional React Native

By : Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
Book Image

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)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with React Native
5
Part 2: Building World-Class Apps with React Native
12
Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Exploring React

On https://reactjs.org/, React is defined as a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The main catchphrases used on the home page are declarative, component-based, and learn once, write anywhere.

When React was first introduced at the JSConf US conference in May 2013 by Jordan Walke of Facebook, the audience was so skeptical that Facebook decided to start a React tour to convince people of the benefits of this new library. Today, React is one of the most popular frameworks for creating web applications, and it’s used not only by Facebook itself, but also by many other big players such as Instagram, Netflix, Microsoft, and Dropbox.

In the next section, I will show you how React works, what makes it so special compared to other similar frameworks and approaches, and how it is related to React Native.

Tip

If you already have Node and Node Package Manager installed, you can set up a new app by using the following command in the terminal:

npx create-react-app name-of-your-app