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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

Connecting to remote backends

React Native allows you to use different solutions to connect to online resources such as APIs. First, you’ll learn about plain HTTP API connections. Later in this section, we’ll also have a look at more high-level solutions such as GraphQL clients and SDKs such as Firebase or Amplify. But let’s start with some general things.

Understanding the general principles of connections in React Native

No matter what connection solution you use in your React Native app, it is always a good idea to use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the format for your data transfer. Since React Native apps are written in JavaScript and JavaScript plays very well with JSON, this is the only logical choice.

Next, regardless of which connection solution you use, always wrap your API calls in a service. Even if you are sure about the connection solution you chose, you may want or have to replace it in a few years.

This is much simpler when you...