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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

In this chapter, we learned about React Native’s built-in components and solutions to handle user gestures. From simple gestures such as single taps to more complex gestures, React Native provides stable solutions to handle gestures. We also had a look at React Native Gesture Handler, which is a great third-party replacement for these built-in solutions.

I would recommend using React Native’s built-in components and solutions for all use cases where you can stick to the standard components. As soon as you start writing your own gesture handling, I would recommend using React Native Gesture Handler.

After Animations and Gesture Handling, we will proceed with another topic, which is very important in terms of performance.

In the next chapter, you will learn what different JavaScript engines are, what options you have in React Native, and what impact the different engines have on performance and other important key metrics.