React Native Blueprints

Develop real world Android and iOS applications with the power of React native.

About This Book

• Build quirky and fun projects from scratch and become efficient with React Native
• Learn to build professional Android and iOS applications with your JavaScript skills
• Use Isomorphic principles to build mobile apps that offer a native user experience

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who want to use their JavaScript knowledge for mobile development. Prior knowledge of React will be beneficial.

What You Will Learn

• Structure React Native projects to ease maintenance and extensibility
• Optimize a project to speed up development
• Make a React Native project production-ready
• Use external modules to speed up the development and maintenance of your projects
• Explore the different UI and code patterns to be used for iOS and Android
• Get to know the best practices when building apps in React Native

In Detail

Considering the success of the React framework, Facebook recently introduced a new mobile development framework called React Native. With React Native's game-changing approach to hybrid mobile development, you can build native mobile applications that are much more powerful, interactive, and faster by using JavaScript

This project-based guide takes you through eight projects to help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and helps you build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone groceries list app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native's performance by building a full-featured game.

This book covers the entire feature set of React Native, starting from the simplest (layout or navigation libraries) to the most advanced (integration with native code) features.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to build professional Android and iOS applications using React Native.

Style and approach

This project-based guide consists of 8 projects. Each project is a standalone project that covers the core techniques and concepts in each project.