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React Native By Example

You're reading from   React Native By Example Native mobile development with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464750
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Project - Creating a Basic To-Do List App FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Functionality and Styling the To-Do List App 3. Our Second Project - The Budgeting App 4. Advanced Functionality with the Expenses App 5. Third Project - The Facebook Client 6. Advanced Facebook App Functionality 7. Redux 8. Deploying Your Applications 9. Additional React Native Components

Creating a PostView


At the end of Chapter 5, Third Project - The Facebook Client, we created a FeedListRow component with a TouchableHighlight that fired the following function when pressed:

// Friends/app/components/FeedListRow/index.js 

... 
  _navigateToPostView () { 
    console.log('pushed'); 
  } 
... 

We will build a PostView component that our users will navigate to when the TouchableHighlight component is pressed in FeedListRow and replace the current login within this _navigfateToPostView function to handle that navigation.

This PostView component should, upon loading, look in AsyncStorage for this post's details and load them if it exists. If it does not, then it should make a request to the Facebook Graph API for the post's details and save them into AsyncStorage for future use.

The details that we are interested in, are the post's attachments, comments, and likes. Since each post on Facebook is assigned a unique post ID, we can also save an object...

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