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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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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4. Starting our Project with React Native Components
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Chapter 4.  Starting our Project with React Native Components

In much the same way in which React for the Web comes with a multitude of JSX elements that represent native HTML elements (div and span), React Native comes with many components representing native iOS and Android components built in. These components are the building blocks of React Native applications and give you access to real, native interfaces that look and feel appropriate to the platform on which they are running.

In addition to these React Native components, the React Native library gives access to many native APIs, which allow us to perform other native tasks that don't comfortably fit into a component. It is important to note that React Native does not expose every native interface component and API. On occasion, we will have to create our own native modules. We'll learn more about writing and using custom native modules in Chapter 10, Using and Writing Native Modules.

In this chapter, we'll...

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