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React Native Blueprints

You're reading from   React Native Blueprints Create eight exciting native cross-platform mobile applications with JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288096
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Emilio Rodriguez Martinez Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Shopping List FREE CHAPTER 2. RSS Reader 3. Car Booking App 4. Image Sharing App 5. Guitar Tuner 6. Messaging App 7. Game 8. E-Commerce App

Messaging App

One-to-one communication is the main use for mobile phones although, text messaging has been quickly replaced by direct messaging apps. In this chapter, we will build a messaging app in React Native with the support of Firebase, a mobile backend as a service that will free us from having to build a whole backend for our app. Instead, we will focus on handling the state of our app fully from the frontend. Of course, this may have security implications that need to be eventually tackled, but to keep the focus of this book on React Native's capabilities, we will stick with the approach of keeping all the logic inside our app.

Firebase is a real-time database built on self-synching collections of data, it plays very well with MobX, so we will use it again for controlling the state of our app. But in this chapter, we will dive deeper as we will build larger data...

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