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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

Summary

Now that we’ve added a modern navigation library to our example project, it’s time to wrap up this chapter. First, you learned what you have to consider when you wish to style your application. You also learned about the most common solutions for styling React Native applications and learned which of them are suitable for sharing code with web projects.

Then, you learned how to store data locally in a React Native app. Finally, you learned how navigation is different between the web and mobile and how to use a modern navigation library to implement state-of-the-art navigation solutions in React Native apps.

In the next chapter, we’ll look at solutions for creating and maintaining a global app state and how to fetch data from external resources. While learning about this, we’ll fill the placeholder screen we created in this chapter with some cool functionality.