Professional React Native

Expert techniques and solutions for building high-quality, cross-platform, production-ready apps

What is this book about?

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.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• 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

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

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Instructions and Navigations

The code will look like the following:

import React from 'react';
import {ScrollView, Text, View} from 'react-native';
const App = () => {
  return (
    <ScrollView contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior="automatic">
      <View>
        <Text>Hello World!</Text>
      </View>
    </ScrollView>
  );
};

Following is what you need for this book: 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.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).

Software and Hardware List

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Related products

• React and React Native - Fourth Edition [Packt] [Amazon]

• React Native Cookbook - Second Edition [Packt] [Amazon]

Get to Know the Author

Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
Alexander Benedikt Kuttig has a masters 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.