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Simplifying State Management in React Native

You're reading from   Simplifying State Management in React Native Master state management from hooks and context through to Redux, MobX, XState, Jotai and React Query

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803235035
Length 202 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aleksandra Desmurs-Linczewska Aleksandra Desmurs-Linczewska
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Learn the Basics: Intro to React, States, Props, Hooks, and Context
2. Chapter 1: What are React and React Native? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Managing State in a Simple React App 4. Part 2 – Creating a Real, Working App
5. Chapter 3: Planning and Setting Up the Funbook App 6. Chapter 4: Styling and Populating the Funbook App 7. Part 3 – Exploring Various Libraries for State Management in React Native
8. Chapter 5: Implementing Redux in Our Funbook App 9. Chapter 6: Using MobX as a State Manager in a React Native App 10. Chapter 7: Untangling Complex Flows in React Native Apps with XState 11. Chapter 8: Integrating Jotai in a React Native App 12. Chapter 9: Using React Query for Server-Side-Driven State Management 13. Part 4 – Summary
14. Chapter 10: Appendix 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring MobX in the Funbook app

As promised by the MobX authors, the boilerplate for this library is minimal. We will have to add three dependencies and a couple of files for everything to work correctly. Let’s start by adding the necessary dependencies by running the following command in the terminal:

npm install mobx mobx-state-tree –save

This command will install both MobX and MobX-State-Tree. MobX is unopinionated about the UI library we want to use it with. This means that when we decide to use a specific UI library, we will have to find a way to get it to cooperate with MobX. It so happens that we have chosen React Native as our UI library, so we need to add an additional dependency that will make MobX cooperate smoothly with React. Let’s run the following command:

npm install mobx-react-lite –save

Now that we have our dependencies, let’s run the following command:

expo start

It’s a good idea to check frequently...

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