The React Native framework offers a range of powerful features that make it possible to efficiently build high-quality, easy-to-maintain frontend applications across multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and the web, helping you save both time and money. And this book is your key to unlocking its capabilities.
Professional React Native provides the ultimate coverage of essential concepts, best practices, advanced processes, and tips for everyday developer problems. The book makes it easy to understand how React Native works under the hood using step-by-step explanations and practical examples so you can use this knowledge to develop highly performant apps. As you follow along, you'll learn the difference between React and React Native, navigate the React Native ecosystem, and revisit the basics of JavaScript and TypeScript needed to create a React Native application. What’s more, you’ll work with animations and even control your app with gestures. Finally, you'll be able to structure larger apps and improve developer efficiency through automated processes, testing, and continuous integration.
By the end of this React native app development book, you'll have gained the confidence to build high-performance apps for multiple platforms, even on a bigger scale.
publication date
2022-10-31
what you will learn
Become familiar with how React Native works under the hood
Understand how to make the most of React Native for app development
Explore different approaches to building apps across various platforms
Become familiar with process automation and automated testing
Contribute to open source code and structure your own code library
Understand how to set up the architecture for bigger React Native projects
key features
Explore a modern approach to React Native, covering state management, animations, gestures, and more * Implement best practices and practical techniques for creating large-scale, production-ready apps * Create a development process including workflow automation with GitHub Actions, Fastlane, and Bitrise
approach
A hands-on book that will take the reader on a journey through how React Native works under the hood and explore the variety of features it had on offer, including gesture handlers and native animations. The book will explore real work projects, best practices, and provides different solutions to deal with platform specific behavior.
audience
This book is for developers who want to get started with React Native as well as experienced React Native developers interested in building professional cross-platform applications. Familiarity with the basics of JavaScript (including its syntax) and general software engineering concepts, such as data types, control flows, and server/client structures, is required. Although useful, experience with React Native is not necessary.
short description
Understand how React Native enables web developers to create multi-platform apps using only one programming language in one of the most extensive tech ecosystems out there. In this book, you’ll focus on techniques and methodologies used in production-ready apps and get up and running with React Native for high-performance app development.
subtitle
Expert techniques and solutions for building high-quality, cross-platform, production-ready apps
keywords
React Native 2022, React Native book, Professional React Native, Hooks, Components, large scale, cross-platform, Mobile, Mobile development
Product ISBN
9781800563681
