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Frank ZammettiPractical React Nativehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3939-1_2

2. Getting to Know React Native

Frank Zammetti1 
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Pottstown, PA, USA
 

In the last chapter, you began your exploration of React Native, looking at its core concepts, a little bit about how it works, and you got started with it in (more or less) typical Hello World fashion. Now, we’ll dive in deeper and survey the components and APIs that React Native supplies for us to work with.

I want to make clear, however, that this chapter is not meant to be a deep-dive into all that is available. Each component has a few available props with which to configure it; some have quite a lot. Many also have methods that you can call on instances of to perform specific ...

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