© Akshat Paul and Abhishek Nalwaya 2019
Akshat Paul and Abhishek NalwayaReact Native for Mobile Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4454-8_6

6. Communicating with Servers

Akshat Paul1  and Abhishek Nalwaya2
(1)
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
(2)
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
 

Communication is everyone’s panacea for everything.

—Tom Peters

After learning about the powers of device capabilities with many examples, it’s time to get back to our SmartHouse application. So far, you have been populating your app locally with some dummy data, but no application can survive without communicating with a server. This chapter covers how to interact with network APIs. You will explore the following topics:

  • XMLHttpRequest

  • WebSocket

  • Fetch

  • Getting data from a server ...

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