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Mastering React Native

Mastering React Native

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Mastering React Native

Mastering React Native

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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.
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4. Starting our Project with React Native Components

Library versus framework

When people describe React, they often eschew the description of framework-a description often used for something such as Backbone or Angular-in favor of library. The reason for this more lightweight description is that React is not a complete solution for application development. It is often relegated to only a view-layer solution, and that characterization is mostly correct. React has some mechanisms for maintaining internal state, but it has no opinion about or solutions for data flow and management, server communication, routing, or other common frontend application concerns.

React, therefore, is often coupled with some other library or libraries to create a fully fleshed out application. The most common pairing is with an application architecture that is also the brainchild of the wizards at Facebook called Flux. Flux is not a library in and of itself; it is a set of design patterns that have been implemented by many different libraries, which will be discussed in more depth in Chapter 5, Flux and Redux.

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