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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
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Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Exploring modern JavaScript

When we speak of modern JavaScript, this refers to ECMAScript 2015 (which also is known as ES6) or newer. It contains a lot of useful features, which are not included in older JavaScript versions. Since 2015 there has been an update to the specification released every year.

You can have a look at the features that were implemented in previous releases in the TC39 GitHub repository (https://bit.ly/prn-js-proposals). You can also find a lot of information about upcoming features and release plans there.

Let’s start our journey to understand the most important parts of JavaScript by having a look under the hood. To truly understand modern JavaScript and the tooling around it, we have to take a little look at the basics and the history of the language. JavaScript is a script language, which can run nearly everywhere.

The most common use case clearly is building dynamic frontends for the web browser, but it also runs on the server (Node.js), as...