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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

The singleton pattern

The singleton pattern is a class that can have only one instance. By its design, whenever we attempt to create a new instance, it will either create an instance for the first time or return the one that was created previously.

How is this pattern useful? If we want to have a single manager for certain things, this comes in handy, whether it be an API manager or cache manager. For instance, if you need to authorize the API to get the token, you will only want to do this once. The first instance will initiate whatever work is necessary and then any other instance will reuse the work that has already been done. This use case was abused mostly by server-side applications, but more and more people have come to realize that there are better alternatives.

Such use cases can nowadays be easily countered by better patterns. Instead of creating a singleton pattern...

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