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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


In this chapter, we applied our knowledge of Redux to our RNNYT app. We also tackled real-world scenarios, such as reshaping/transforming data, creating derived data with Reselect, and resolving asynchronous actions using middleware. We even improved the user experience by adding a loading icon and pull to refresh capability. With all this in place, users can now navigate to the Search tab to seek out specific news items. Currently, all navigation within the app is handled by the TabBarIOS component. In the next chapter, we'll expand upon our app's navigation capabilities by reviewing some of React Native's navigation APIs.