Mobile Application Development with React Native

Learn how to:

• «Think in React»
• Build composable component based views
• Manage state using pure functions
• Manage control flow to make you application do what you want, when you want it
• Communicate with your backend and APIs
• Use native device functionality
• Leverage new React features like hooks and context to simplify your application
• Deploy your application

Some of the tech we'll use:

• react-native
• redux / redux-thunk
• axios

Course Outline:

Day 1

• Introduction
• Modern JavaScript Features
• Philosophy and Fundamentals of React
• Setup and tooling (expo / create-react-native-app)
• Web vs. Native
• Fundamentals of React Native

Day 2

• Core React Native Components
• Component Lifecycle
• Higher Order Components
• Input Handling and Events
• Styling and Layout
• Cross-platform APIs
• Network and Data Fetching
• Storage

Day 3

• State management
• Control flow and side-effect management
• Testing
• Eco-system
• Deployment

Who Should Attend:
Developers who want to to build modern mobile applications for multiple platforms leveraging what they already know from developing applications in JavaScript.

Pre-requisites:
You should ideally have some experience with JavaScript, as we won't spend too much time on the language itself. Prior experience with a JavaScript framework/library is helpful but not essential.

Computer Setup:
Attendees will need a laptop with the following installed

• node.js 8.x or later
• IDE / text editor of choice (like Atom or VSCode)
• console with git