Professional React Native: Expert techniques and solutions for building high-quality, cross-platform, production-ready apps

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

Book Description

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.

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

Who this book is for

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.

Table of Contents

1. What Is React Native
2. Understanding the Essentials of JavaScript and TypeScript
3. Hello React Native
4. Styling, Storage, and Navigation in React Native
5. Managing States and Connecting Backends
6. Working with Animations
7. Handling Gestures in React Native
8. JavaScript Engines and Hermes
9. Essential Tools for Improving React Native Development
10. Structuring Large-Scale, Multi-Platform Projects
11. Creating and Automating Workflows
12. Automated Testing of React Native Apps
13. Tips and Outlook

Alexander Benedikt Kuttig has a master’s degree in computer science and currently works as a software and app architect. With plenty of industry experience, he has created app architecture for different industries, such as education, sports and fitness, manufacturing, printing, and banking, which have been used by millions of users across the globe.

He runs multiple businesses, such as Horizon Alpha, an app development agency, and Teamfit, a digital corporate health platform. He also speaks about his work at different conferences, such as RNEU and the Geekle Cross-Platform Summit, and has a blog on Medium, which he uses to write about the challenges he faces. Alexander is highly experienced as a React Native developer, speaker, and contributor.