This is a simple tutorial series for React Native app development. After complete the tutorial series any developer can develop a mobile app for android and ios. This tutorials design for those developers who just want to start React Native App development.
Table of Content
- Introduction
- What is React Native App?
- System requirement for React Native Development
- Best development IDE for React Native
- Setup your computer for React Native App Development
- Why React Native?
Introduction
React is a Javascript library developed by Facebook for design complex UI for the application. So the React is a tool to develop the UI components. React is a component-based development technique so you can divide a large UI into some small components. That’s why also maintains those components very easily.
What is React Native App?
React Native is a mobile application framework which use to develop a platform-independent mobile applications. So with the use of React Native, you can develop a very nice professional native mobile application. If you want to learn how to develop a native application then these tutorials are for you.
The React Native is an open-source app development framework. You can easily build a mobile app. In this tutorial, we will set up the development environment step by step for React Native App development.
Two types of mobile app development technologies available, one is hybrid technology and another is native app development technology.
Hybrid App Development Technology
This is basically a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No need any other skill to develop hybrid mobile app. You can build android and ios app with this technology but hare some limitation. The limitations are the use of hardware access of the mobile device is very difficult. For those purposes, you may need the help of third-party plugins.
Native App Development
If you want to create the best professional mobile app then you go for native development technology. React Native allow you to use react components. You can also use ready React Native components to build a mobile app. So in the case of mobile app development React Native is very powerful and easy technology.
System requirement for React Native Development
You can start developing the React Native app in both operation system Windows and Mac. Just you need to install Node.js to use the node package manager. Because to install and manage different types of module for development we need it.
Best development IDE for React Native
You can choose any code editor to develop the React Native Mobile app. But it is my recommendation that use VC Code (Visual Studio Code) editor for react-native. Because there are so many extensions available for React Native and which make easy the development process. In this tutorial series, we will use the Visual Studio Code as a Code Editor.
How to install Visual Studio Code
Setup your computer for React Native App Development
To set up your computer first time for React Native app development. Just Install Node.js and Visual Studio Code. After installation, your computer is ready to start developing React Native Mobile Applications.
Read this article to install necessary extensions for React Native application
Why React Native
There are so many reasons to use React Native as a Mobile app development technology. But hare is the main two reasons to continue with React. One is performance and second is easy to development and maintenance. It is a component-based development technique so you can divide your application into multiple small components and reuse it when needed.
In the next article, we will create our first native application and step by step we will create a complete application.
