React Native Cookbook: Recipes for solving common React Native development problems, 2nd Edition
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Packt Publishing
If you are a developer looking to create mobile applications with maximized code reusability and minimized cost, React Native is what you need. With this practical guide, youll be able to build attractive UIs, tackle common problems in mobile development, and achieve improved performance in mobile environments.
This book starts by covering the common techniques for React Native customization and helps you set up your development platforms. Over the course of the book, youll work through a wide variety of recipes that help you create, style, and animate your apps with built-in React Native and custom third-party components. Youll also develop real-world browser-based authentication, build a fully functional audio player, and integrate Google Maps in your apps. This book will help you explore different strategies for working with data, including leveraging the popular Redux library and optimizing your apps dataflow. Youll also learn how to write native device functionality for new and existing React Native projects and how app deployment works.
By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with tips and tricks to write efficient code and have the skills to build full iOS and Android applications using React Native.
About the Author
Dan Ward is a full-stack developer and web technology consultant who has a number of years of experience working on mobile applications with React Native, and developing web applications with React, Vue, and Angular. He's also a co-founder at gitconnected, and co-editor at the associated Medium publication. His professional interests include React Native development, modern web development, and technical writing. He also has a BA in English Literature from Florida State University.
- Build UI features and components using React Native
- Create advanced animations for UI components
- Develop universal apps that run on phones and tablets
- Leverage Redux to manage application flow and data
- Expose both custom native UI components and application logic to React Native
- Employ open source third-party plugins to create React Native apps
If you're a JavaScript developer looking for a practical guide for developing feature-rich mobile apps using React Native, this book is for you. Though not necessary, some experience of working with React will help you understand the React Native concepts covered in this book easily.
While React Native development can be done on a Windows machine, certain aspects, such as running your apps on iOS devices and in the iOS simulator, or editing native code with Xcode, can only be done with a Mac.
- Setting Up Your Environment
- Creating a Simple React Native App
- Implementing Complex User Interfaces Section 1
- Implementing Complex User Interfaces Section 2
- Implementing Complex User Interfaces -- Section3
- Adding Basic Animations to Your App
- Adding Advanced Animations to Your App
- Working with Application Logic and Data
- Implementing Redux
- App Workflow and Third-Party Plugins
- Adding Native Functionality - Part I
- Adding Native Functionality - Part II
- Integration with Native Applications
- Deploying Your App
- Optimizing the Performance of Your App
