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Mastering React Native

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Mastering React Native

Overview of this book

React Native has completely revolutionized mobile development by empowering JavaScript developers to build world-class mobile apps that run natively on mobile platforms. This book will show you how to apply JavaScript and other front-end skills to build cross-platform React Native applications for iOS and Android using a single codebase. This book will provide you with all the React Native building blocks necessary to become an expert. We’ll give you a brief explanation of the numerous native components and APIs that come bundled with React Native including Images, Views, ListViews, WebViews, and much more. You will learn to utilize form inputs in React Native. You’ll get an overview of Facebook’s Flux data architecture and then apply Redux to manage data with a remote API. You will also learn to animate different parts of your application, as well as routing using React Native’s navigation APIs. By the end of the book, you will be able to build cutting-edge applications using the React Native framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering React Native
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 12.  React Native Tools and Resources

As we bring this book to a close, it's time to acknowledge how much we've accomplished. We've learned about numerous React Native APIs and how to configure our environments for building React Native apps for both iOS and Android. And more importantly, we've used this knowledge to build a fully featured, cross-platform app that uses several advanced techniques for modeling data, communicating with a remote server, animating views, and even bridging code to the underlying platform. Phew!

But we developers are never satisfied are we? Sadly, no. So let's spend this final chapter learning how to further improve upon the development experience and how to continue leveling up as React Native developers. Specifically, we'll look at:

  • Tools that improve upon the React Native development experience

  • Ways to build React Native apps for platforms other than iOS and Android

  • Great online resources for React Native development