Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native: Proven techniques and patterns for efficient native mobile development with JavaScript

by Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz

Learn how to write cross platform React Native code by using effective design patterns in the JavaScript world. Get to know industry standard patterns as well as situational patterns. Decouple your application with these set of “Idea patterns”. React Native helps developers reuse code across different mobile platforms like iOS and Android. This book will show you effective design patterns in the React Native world and will make you ready for professional development in big teams. The book will focus only on the patterns that are relevant to JavaScript, ECMAScript, React and React Native. However, you can successfully transfer a lot of the skills and techniques to other languages. I call them “Idea patterns”. This book will start with the most standard development patterns in React like component building patterns, styling patterns in React Native and then extend these patterns to your mobile application using real world practical examples. Each chapter comes with full, separate source code of applications that you can build and run on your phone. The book is also diving into architectural patterns. Especially how to adapt MVC to React environment. You will learn Flux architecture and how Redux is implementing it. Each approach will be presented with its pros and cons. You will learn how to work with external data sources using libraries like Redux thunk and Redux Saga. The end goal is the ability to recognize the best solution for a given problem for your next mobile application. The ideal target audience for this book are people eager to learn React Native design patterns who already know the basics of JavaScript. We can assume that the target audience already knows how to write Hello World in JavaScript and know what are the functions, recursive functions, JavaScript types and loops.

302 pages, Paperback

Published September 29, 2018

Reviews

[Filipe Ramos · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book

Not an very good book. It has some good information on it, but the way it’s presented is not optimal. Some key concepts are not very well explained.
Also, if you don’t know JavaScript well enough, you need to start with a different book.

Still, it’s worth reading.