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React and React Native

You're reading from   React and React Native Build cross-platform JavaScript apps with native power for mobile, web and desktop

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465658
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam Boduch Adam Boduch
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Why React? FREE CHAPTER 2. Rendering with JSX 3. Understanding Properties and State 4. Event Handling – The React Way 5. Crafting Reusable Components 6. The React Component Lifecycle 7. Validating Component Properties 8. Extending Components 9. Handling Navigation with Routes 10. Server-Side React Components 11. Mobile-First React Components 12. Why React Native? 13. Kickstarting React Native Projects 14. Building Responsive Layouts with Flexbox 15. Navigating Between Screens 16. Rendering Item Lists 17. Showing Progress 18. Geolocation and Maps 19. Collecting User Input 20. Alerts, Notifications, and Confirmation 21. Responding to User Gestures 22. Controlling Image Display 23. Going Offline 24. Handling Application State 25. Why Relay and GraphQL? 26. Building a Relay React App

Unified information architecture

Let's take a moment to recap the ingredients of our application architecture so far:

  • React Web: Applications that run in web browsers
  • React Native: Applications that run natively on mobile platforms
  • Flux: Patterns for scalable data in React applications

Remember, React is just an abstraction that sits on top of a render target. The two main render targets are browsers and mobile native. This list will likely grow, so it's up to us to design our architecture in a way that doesn't exclude future possibilities. The challenge is that you're not porting a web application to a native mobile application; they're different applications, but they serve the same purpose.

Having said that, is there a way that we can still have some kind of unified information architecture based on ideas from Flux that can be used by these different applications? The best answer I can come up with, unfortunately, is: sort of. You don't want to let the different...

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