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React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

You're reading from   React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native Build 4 real-world apps with React Native

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136081
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Emilio Rodriguez Martinez Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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Firebase is a Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), which means that it provides mobile developers with all the backend necessities, such as user management, no SQL database, and a push notification server. It integrates easily with React Native through an official node package, which brings the database connection for free. Unfortunately, Firebase doesn't offer a JavaScript SDK for their push notifications service, but there are several React Native libraries filling that gap by bridging Firebase's iOS and Java SDKs with a JavaScript interface. We will be using react-native-fcm as it is the most mature in its field.

Before building an app on top of a Firebase MBaaS, you need to create a project for it. This is a free process that is explained in Firebase's website https://firebase.google.com/. Although this process is not directly related to React Native, it's a good starting point to understand how to set up and use a MBaaS for our apps. Most of the configuring can be finished in...

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