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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

Navigation landscape


React Native was first released with two competing navigation APIs. Facebook was internally experimenting with two different approaches to navigation when it was time to open source the library, so, rather than choose one over the other, both were included. As time went on, it was discovered that there were some pain points with those initial APIs and use cases, so a new navigation API that was more versatile and extensible was crafted. In addition to these official APIs, other community members, who wanted to create navigation APIs that reflected those used in React for the Web, created a number of projects on top of the React Native modules.

This is where we are today, with so many navigation options it could make your head spin. Fear not, for we will delve into each of these and give you the information you need to pick the best navigation strategy for your project.

NavigatorIOS

The NavigatorIOS component is built on top of the native iOS navigational components. This...