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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

Taking React Native beyond iOS and Android


The development experience is one of the most highly touted features by React Native proponents. But, as we well know by now, React Native is more than just a great development experience. It's also about building cross-platform applications with a common language and, often, reusable code and components. Out of the box, the Facebook team has provided tremendous support for iOS and Android. And thanks to the community, React Native has expanded to include other promising platforms. In this section, I'll take you through a few of these React Native projects. I won't go into great technical depth, but I'll provide a high-level overview and show how to get each running.

Introducing React Native Web

React Native Web is an interesting one. It treats many React Native components you've learned about, such as View, Text, and TextInput, as higher-level abstractions that map to HTML elements, such as div, span, and input, thus allowing you to build a web app...