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React Native Blueprints

By : Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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React Native Blueprints

By: Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

Considering the success of the React framework, Facebook recently introduced a new mobile development framework called React Native. With React Native's game-changing approach to hybrid mobile development, you can build native mobile applications that are much more powerful, interactive, and faster by using JavaScript This project-based guide takes you through eight projects to help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and helps you build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone groceries list app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native’s performance by building a full-featured game. This book covers the entire feature set of React Native, starting from the simplest (layout or navigation libraries) to the most advanced (integration with native code) features. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build professional Android and iOS applications using React Native.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Managing our state with MobX


MobX is a library which makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming. The philosophy behind MobX is very simple: anything that can be derived from the application state, should be derived automatically. This philosophy applies to UI, data serialisation and server communication. 

Lots of documentation and examples of using MobX can be found on its website https://mobx.js.org/, although we will make a small introduction in this section to fully understand our app's code in this chapter.

The store

MobX uses the concept of "observable" properties. We should declare an object containing our general application's state, which will hold and declare those observable properties. When we modify one of these properties, all the subscribed observers will be updated by MobX automatically. This is the basic principle behind MobX, so let's take a look at a sample code:

/*** src/store.js ***/

import {observable} from 'mobx...