React Native

Reading

• getting started with react native

  • Name three Core Components of React Native and describe what they do.

    • <View>: A container that supports layout with flexbox, style, some touch handling, and accessibility controls
    • <Text>: Displays, styles, and nests strings of text and even handles touch events
    • <Image>: Displays different types of images

  • What problem does React Native solve (why call it native)?

    • Because React Native components are backed by the same views as Android and iOS, React Native apps look, feel, and perform like any other apps. We call these platform-backed components Native Components.

  • What are the building blocks of a React Native app? How does that compare to a React app?

    • The building blocks of a React Native app are functional components that use core components of react

• expo

  • What solution does expo provide?

    • Expo is a set of tools and services (framework / platform) built around React Native and, while it has many features, the most relevant feature for us right now is that it can get you writing a React Native app within minutes.

  • Expo tries to manage as much of the complexity of building apps as possible, which is why we call it the __ workflow.

    • managed

  • What is the difference between React Native and Expo?

    • Expo allows you share your project easily with others

• expo snack

  • Checkout this tool. What does snack allow you to do?

    • Create a application on a web application

• ejecting

  • What does “eject” mean within the context of Expo?

    • Convert pure javascript into modules useable for ios or andriod.

  • When should you not eject?

    • When you are not creating a ios or andriod application

  • Why might you choose to eject?

    • When you create a project outside of a web application, like a phone/mobile app.

Tutorial

• react native basics

Bookmark and Review

• react native

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