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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

Summary


While navigation is a core concept for almost every mobile application, the waters are still a bit murky in the world of React Native. For simple applications, the Navigator API provides an easy, ready-to-use component for managing scenes. For applications that are more sophisticated, the new NavigationExperimental API is worth learning and applying. The statelessness of NavigationExperimental and its declarative API make it a much more natural fit for a React application.

In addition to navigational APIs, the React Native library comes with many other native APIs that can be used to make complex and interesting applications. In this chapter, we looked at using the NetInfo API to check for Internet connectivity, the Linking API to open articles in the native browser, and the AsyncStorage API to persist data locally on the device. While these APIs showcase some of the exciting things that can be done with React Native, the list here is not exhaustive. As React Native becomes more mature...

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