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Understanding the Essentials of JavaScript and TypeScript
Since React Native apps are written in JavaScript, it is important to have a very good understanding of this language to build high-quality apps. JavaScript is very easy to learn, but very hard to master, because it allows you to do nearly everything without giving you a hard time. However, just because you can do everything does not mean that you should.
The overall goal of this chapter is to show important underlying concepts for avoiding the most common mistakes, bad patterns, and very expensive don’ts. You will get useful tips, learn best practices, and repeat the most important basics to use JavaScript in your apps.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Exploring ...
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