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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)
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

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the main concepts of the JavaScript library React. We have shown that React is declarative, component-based, and follows a learn once, write everywhere approach. These concepts are the base for the cross-platform mobile development framework React Native.

You saw the main advantages of this framework, namely the huge community that provides additional packages and libraries, the fact that a lot of operating systems besides iOS and Android are available, and the usage of native elements via the Bridge or JSI. Last but not least, you discovered Expo as one way of setting up a React Native app, and you know when to use which Expo workflow.

In the next chapter, we will briefly talk about the most important facts and features of JavaScript and TypeScript.