Learning React Native: Building Native Mobile Apps with JavaScript, Edition 2

Bonnie Eisenman

Oct 2017 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Ebook

242

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Eligible

About this ebook

Get a practical introduction to React Native, the JavaScript framework for writing and deploying fully featured mobile apps that render natively. The second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to build applications that target iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms instead of browsers—apps that can access platform features such as the camera, user location, and local storage.

Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, web developers and frontend engineers familiar with React will learn how to build and style interfaces, use mobile components, and debug and deploy apps. You’ll learn how to extend React Native using third-party libraries or your own Java and Objective-C libraries.

Understand how React Native works under the hood with native UI components
Examine how React Native’s mobile-based components compare to basic HTML elements
Create and style your own React Native components and applications
Take advantage of platform-specific APIs, as well as modules from the framework’s community
Incorporate platform-specific components into cross-platform apps
Learn common pitfalls of React Native development, and tools for dealing with them
Combine a large application’s many screens into a cohesive UX
Handle state management in a large app with the Redux library

About the author

Bonnie Eisenman is a software engineer at Twitter and a member of the hackerspace NYC Resistor, with previous experience at Codecademy, Fog Creek Software, and Google. She is the author of Learning React Native, a book on building native iOS and Android applications with Javascript, published with O’Reilly Media. In her spare time, she enjoys learning languages, tinkering with hardware projects, and knitting. Her projects are posted at http://bonnieeisenman.com. Find her on Twitter as @brindelle.

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