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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
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Preface

Getting started with Redux


Redux is an implementation library for data handling in client applications that was inspired, in large part, by Flux. It draws on the ideas of Flux and adds in immutability and the principles of functional programming in an attempt to bring sanity to frontend applications that, as a category, are growing in complexity on a regular basis.

While the motivations behind Redux are very much in line with those of Flux, the approach that it takes is slightly different. To understand Redux, you must first understand the three principles that guide the framework.

Principles of Redux

The first principle of Redux is that all application state is contained within a single store, which is most often a JavaScript object. Remember that, in Flux, we could have many disparate stores, each responsible for its own logical domain. Redux uses a single store instead, but has reducer functions that are responsible for managing smaller parts of the greater state.

There are many benefits...