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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

Summary


Styling is a big topic, and we've covered a lot of ground. We introduced how styling works in React Native and how in many ways it's similar to CSS. We also discussed where React Native and CSS differ, particularly with their approach to inheritance. To address this, we demonstrated how to create reusable components that encapsulate styles. Then we discussed all the different ways you can apply style properties, be it for Text or non-Text components. Because flexbox is critical to layout in React Native, we did a deep dive on the many facets of flexbox. And while debugging React Native styles is not as great a developer experience as debugging business logic, we reviewed how you can diagnose some of those pesky layout questions you're bound to encounter.

Although we did not touch on every single style or layout property found in React Native, we've covered more than enough to put you on a solid footing. With this much deeper understanding of layout and style, we'll next explore many...