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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition
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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

by Daniel Ward
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
14h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Boosting the performance of our app

The reason for React Native's existence is building native apps with JavaScript. This is different than similar frameworks such as Ionic or Cordova hybrid applications, which wrap a web application written in JavaScript and attempt to emulate native app behavior. Those web applications only have access to native APIs for performing processing, but cannot render native views inside their apps. This is one major benefit to React Native apps, thus making them inherently faster than hybrid apps. Since it's so much more performant out of the box, we generally do not have to worry about overall performance as much as we would with a hybrid web app. Still, with a little extra effort, a slight improvement in performance ...

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ISBN: 9781788991926