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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

By : Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz
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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

By: Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz

Overview of this book

React Native helps developers reuse code across different mobile platforms like iOS and Android. This book will show you effective design patterns in the React Native world and will make you ready for professional development in big teams. The book will focus only on the patterns that are relevant to JavaScript, ECMAScript, React and React Native. However, you can successfully transfer a lot of the skills and techniques to other languages. I call them “Idea patterns”. This book will start with the most standard development patterns in React like component building patterns, styling patterns in React Native and then extend these patterns to your mobile application using real world practical examples. Each chapter comes with full, separate source code of applications that you can build and run on your phone. The book is also diving into architectural patterns. Especially how to adapt MVC to React environment. You will learn Flux architecture and how Redux is implementing it. Each approach will be presented with its pros and cons. You will learn how to work with external data sources using libraries like Redux thunk and Redux Saga. The end goal is the ability to recognize the best solution for a given problem for your next mobile application.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

To sum up, Flux is a very good invention for large-scale applications. It solves problems where the classic MVC pattern struggles to do so. Events are unidirectional, which makes communication more predictable. The domain of your application can easily be mapped to stores and then maintained with a domain expert.

All of these things are available thanks to a well-thought-out pattern consisting of a Dispatcher, stores, and actions. In this chapter, we made our little Flux-based application using flux-utils, Facebook's official library.

Having connected all of these pieces, we are ready to deep-dive into one particular aspect—stores. There are a few patterns that you can use to put your store on another level. One of these is Redux library. We will explore the different capabilities that Redux provides in the next chapter.

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