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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

Using local storage solutions in React Native

Storing data locally is a very important task in mobile apps. Even nowadays, you cannot be sure that a mobile device is always connected to the internet. Because of this, it is best practice to create your app in such a way that it has as much functionality as possible, even without a connection to the internet. That said, you can see why storing data locally is important for React Native apps.

The most important criterion for differentiation for local storage solutions is if it is a secure or an unsecure storage solution. Since most apps store at least some information about the user, you should always think about which information you want to put in which store.

Important

Always use a secure storage solution to store sensitive information.

While it is important to store sensitive data in a secure store, most data, such as user progress, app content, and more, can be stored in a normal storage solution. Secure storage operations...