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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

Evaluating React Native Editors, Plugins, and IDEs


I'm hard pressed to think of another topic that developers are more passionate about than their preferred code editor. Of the many options, two popular editors today are GitHub's Atom and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (not be confused with the Visual Studio 2015). Both are cross-platform editors for Windows, macOS, and Linux and are easily extended with additional features. In this section, I'll detail my personal experience with these tools and where I have found they complement the React Native development experience.

Atom and Nuclide

Facebook has created a package for Atom known as Nuclide that provides a first-class development environment for React Native It features a built-in debugger similar to Chrome's DevTools, a React Native Inspector (think the Elements tab in Chrome DevTools), and support for the static type checker Flow.

Tip

Download Atom from https://atom.io/ and Nuclide from https://nuclide.io/.

To install the Nuclide package...