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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)
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

To wrap this chapter up, let’s have a short recap. In this chapter, you learned how to handle local and global states. You learned about the most popular concepts of global state handling and how to decide which data should be stored in your global state or the local state of a component or view. You also understood how to use React Context, Zustand, and Redux for global state handling.

After mastering state management in React Native, you learned how to connect your app to a remote backend. You understood how to use the built-in Fetch API, how to extract API calls in a service, how to create and use helper functions, and how to work with async calls. Finally, you learned about the different solutions for data fetching, such as Axios, GraphQL clients, and other SDKs.

Now that you have completed the first five chapters of this book, you can create a working app with a strong technical foundation. In the next chapter, you will learn how to make your app look good...