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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

Styling without inheritance

Much of how we think about using CSS on the Web is predicated upon the concept of inheritance. We as web developers have built up many best practices that assume inheritance from the html container all the way down the DOM tree. As an example in CSS, we'll often define several styles on the html or body elements such as color, font-family, or font-size. By default, these definitions will be inherited by the entire subtree, making it easy to establish a baseline. With this basic example, this approach feels clean and relatively straightforward. However, as your CSS grows, all these inherited styles and conflicting rules can make styling larger applications unpredictable and difficult to scale.

React Native takes a different approach to styling. Rather than applying the same inheritance model as CSS, React Native styles are almost entirely scoped to the elements where they are applied. This encourages a different approach to styling your application. Rather...

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