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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
12
Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Managing global application states

Since React Native is based on React, managing the application state does not differ much from React applications. There are dozens of well-maintained and working state management libraries available, all of which you can use in React Native. However, having a good plan and knowing how to manage the application state is much more important in an app than in a web application.

While it might be acceptable to wait a couple of seconds for data to appear or for a new page to load, this is not the case in a mobile app. Users are used to seeing information or changes immediately. So, you have to ensure that this also is the case in your app.

In this section, we’ll have a look at the most popular state management solutions, but first, you’ll learn about the different state management patterns and which one you should use for your project.

Passing properties

While it may work fine to only work with local component states in small...