One of the taglines for development with React is learn once, write anywhere, which is due to the existence of React Native. With React Native, you can write native mobile applications using JavaScript and React while using the same features as React for things such as state management. Building on the React knowledge that you've already gathered from this book, you'll start exploring React Native from this chapter on. As React and React Native share a lot of similarities, it's advised that you have another look at some of the previous chapters whenever you feel insecure about your React knowledge.

In this chapter, you'll create a mobile application using React Native, which uses the same syntax and patterns that you've seen in the previous chapters. You'll set up basic routing, explore...