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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

Understanding the mobile app development ecosystem


When it comes to building mobile applications, the two most popular approaches have been, first, building a native application for each target platform (iOS, Android, and so on), and second, writing a hybrid application by using web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and wrapping the app inside of a container WebView using a tool such as Adobe PhoneGap. Each option has its pros and cons. Native applications often feel faster and more responsive. They have built-in support for complex touch gestures and they look and feel consistent with their platform. As a post from the Facebook blog states, the reason we build native apps on these proprietary platforms is that right now, we can create better-feeling experiences that are more consistent with the rest of the platform than we can on the web. (Source: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1014532261909640/react-native-bringing-modern-web-techniques-to-mobile/) However, this comes at a cost. For...