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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
5
Part 2: Building World-Class Apps with React Native
12
Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Working with global state management solutions

Historically, we would have to start with Redux since it was the first global state management solution to be popular. Back in 2015, when it was introduced, it quickly became the de facto standard for global state management in React applications. It is still used very widely, but especially in the last 3 years, some other third-party solutions have emerged.

React also introduced a built-in solution for global state management that can be used in class components, as well as function components. It’s called React Context, and since it ships with React, we’ll start by looking at it.

Working with React Context

The idea of React Context is very simple: it is like a tunnel into a component that any other component can connect to. A context always consists of a provider and a consumer. The provider can be added to any existing component and expects a value property to be passed. All components that are descendants of...