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Front End Workshops
React Native Part I
Jordi Serra
jserra@naradarobotics.com

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React Native
A FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING NATIVE APPS USING REACT

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React Native enables you to build world-class application
experiences on native platforms using a consistent
developer experience based on JavaScript and React.
Focuses on developer efficiency across all platforms.
Learn once, write everywhere.
What is React Native?

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React Native uses the actual native components of each
platform (currently iOS and Android).
Native Components
Android
render() {
return (
<DrawerLayoutAndroid
renderNavigationView={
() => <Text>
React Native
</Text>
}>
<ProgressBarAndroid />
</DrawerLayoutAndroid>
);
}
iOS
render() {
return (
<TabBarIOS>
<TabBarIOS.Item
title="React Native"
selected={true}>
<NavigatorIOS
initialRoute={{ title:
'React Native' }} />
</TabBarIOS.Item>
</TabBarIOS>
);
}

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All operations between the javascript code and the native
code are performed asynchronously
- Decode images
- Save to disk
- Measure and compute Layouts
- …
All this results in naturally fluid and responsive apps.
Asynchronous execution

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Communication with native app is fully serializable, so we
can leverage the usual debugging tools
Debugging

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The debug version of the code launches a node server
responsible to serve the code changes to the app.
When code changes, app can reload automatically.
Live Reload/Hot reload

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React Native implements a subset of flexbox components
and syntax -Not .css!
var styles = StyleSheet.create({
row: { flexDirection: 'row', margin: 40 },
image: { width: 40, height: 40, marginRight: 10 },
text: { flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center'},
title: { fontSize: 11, fontWeight: 'bold' },
subtitle: { fontSize: 10 },
});
Flexbox and styling

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React Native only focuses on how the view code is written
You can leverage all the JS world for any -not visual-
library.
React Native leverages from the open source community.
When in trouble, just remember:
$> npm install --save
It’s just a JS framework!

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Useful Native Components:
Native Components
Common
View, Text, TextInput, Image,
TouchableHighlight,
ScrollView,
MapView
iOS
TabBarIOS
DatePickerIOS
ProgressViewIOS
Android
DrawerLayoutAndroid
ViewPagerAndroid
ToolbarAndroid
Two worlds
Slider-SliderIOS,
Picker-PickerIOS,
Navigator-NavigatorIOS

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Useful Native APIs:
Alert-AlertIOS
AppRegistry,
StyleSheet,
CameraRoll,
ToastAndroid,
…
Para todo lo demás… GitHub + ReactParts
Native APIs

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Not included? Make your own!
There is a lot already -use with caution!
Native modules

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- Set up your environment development carefully
- Develop iOS & Android concurrently ASAP
- Android first: less components over there
- Use linter. It’ll avoid many problems
- Use Redux. No hace falta decir nada más
Some Thoughts on Poduction Development

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Thanks for your time!
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