When we finish with the functionality of an application, there are still several steps before our friends, family, and customers can begin to download it from the App Store. Any production application is well tested for correctness and performance characteristics. Luckily for us, the React Native ecosystem has many tools, continuously developing and maturing, that can aid us in this process.
What draws frontend developers to React Native is that it is a framework that empowers them to make native applications with the skills they already possess. What, hopefully, keeps them there is the fact that with proper tuning it can match the performance and feel of full native applications for most use cases. The steps outlined in this chapter are important for realizing that promise.
In the next, and final, chapter, we'll take a look at other resources that can help you on your continued journey to master React Native.