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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native Proven techniques and patterns for efficient native mobile development with JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994460
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz
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Preface 1. React Component Patterns 2. View Patterns FREE CHAPTER 3. Styling Patterns 4. Flux Architecture 5. Store Patterns 6. Data Transfer Patterns 7. Navigation Patterns 8. JavaScript and ECMAScript Patterns 9. Elements of Functional Programming Patterns 10. Managing Dependencies 11. Type Checking Patterns 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

React Navigation

Browsers have a navigation solution baked in, React Native needs to have an own one, and there is a reason behind this:

"In a web browser, you can link to different pages using an anchor (<a>) tag. When the user clicks on a link, the URL is pushed to the browser history stack. When the user presses the back button, the browser pops the item from the top of the history stack, so the active page is now the previously visited page. React Native doesn't have a built-in idea of a global history stack like a web browser does -- this is where React Navigation enters the story."
- React Navigation official documentation, available at:
https://reactnavigation.org/docs/en/hello-react-navigation.html.

To sum this up, our mobile navigation can be handled not only like that seen in a browser, but also in any custom way we please. This is thanks to historical...

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