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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

Understanding how to style a React Native app

You can choose from different solutions to handle styling in your React Native app. But before we take a look at the most common ones, you must understand the underlying concepts. The first thing we’ll cover in this chapter is what all these solutions try to achieve.

Make styling maintainable

Styling is often handled very poorly when a project starts because it does not interfere with the business logic, so it isn’t likely to introduce bugs. So, most of the time, when thinking about the architecture of an application, most developers think of state management, data flow, component structure, and more, but not about styling. This always takes its toll when a project grows. It starts to take more and more time to keep a consistent design and making changes to your UI becomes a real pain.

Therefore, you should think about how to handle styling in your application right at the beginning. No matter what solution or library...