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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

In this chapter, we focused heavily on networking patterns and the side effects that come along with them. We went through simple patterns and then used the available tools on the market. You have learned about the Thunk pattern, along with iterator and generator patterns. All three of these patterns will be useful in your future programming career, whether it is in React Native or not.

As for the React ecosystem, you have learned the basics of the Redux Thunk and Redux Saga libraries. Both of them solve some of the challenges that come with large scale applications. Use them wisely and bear in mind all of the warnings I have placed within this chapter.

Now that we know how to display data, style it, and fetch it, we are ready to learn some application building patterns. Namely, in the next chapter, you will learn navigational patterns. In React Native, there are plenty...