React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

1. First, let's open App.js and import the dependencies we'll be using:

import React, { Component } from 'react';import {  StyleSheet,  Text,  View,  TouchableOpacity} from 'react-native';import Realm from 'realm';

2. Next, we need to instantiate our Realm database, which we'll do in the componentWillMount method. We'll keep a reference to it by using the realm class variable:

export default class App extends Component {  realm;  componentWillMount() {    const realm = this.realm = new Realm({     schema: [      {        name: 'User',        properties: {          firstName: 'string',          lastName: 'string',          email: 'string'        }      }   ] }); } // Defined in later steps.}

3. To create the User entries, we will use the random user generator API provided by randomuser.me. Let's create ...