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React Native By Example

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786464750

Length 414 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Richard Kho

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

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

Planning the app

Friends will be the first full-fledged example we build of just how powerful React Native is. It will deal with a lot of moving parts, so it's good to plan out the app in depth. On a basic level, accessing the Facebook Graph API gives us the following permissions:

Signing in
Viewing your feed
Viewing the list of posts on your feed along with its comments and likes
Adding new posts and comments on your feed
Browsing the photos that you've uploaded to your Facebook profile along with their comments and likes
Viewing the events that you have RSVPd
Rediscovering the list of pages that you have liked

As in the previous chapters, we want to break this off into bite-sized accomplishments. By the end of this chapter, Friends should do the following things:

Prompt the user to sign in to Facebook, if they haven't already, and save their authentication token automatically with the SDK
While the feed is loading, show a spinning animation to visualize that data is loading
Show the user their feed...

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Authors (1)

Kho

Kho

Richard Kho is a software engineer living in San Francisco. He taught himself how to code in 2014 and has lived a past life as a photographer and cinematographer. He currently works for Capital One and has taught software engineers at Hack Reactor in the past. Richard is also a technical advisor to Code Chrysalis, an advanced software engineering immersive in Tokyo.

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