Summary

To wrap this chapter up, let’s have a short recap. In this chapter, you learned how to handle local and global states. You learned about the most popular concepts of global state handling and how to decide which data should be stored in your global state or the local state of a component or view. You also understood how to use React Context, Zustand, and Redux for global state handling.

After mastering state management in React Native, you learned how to connect your app to a remote backend. You understood how to use the built-in Fetch API, how to extract API calls in a service, how to create and use helper functions, and how to work with async calls. Finally, you learned about the different solutions for data fetching, such as Axios, GraphQL clients, and other SDKs.

Now that you have completed the first five chapters of this book, you can create a working app with a strong technical foundation. In the next chapter, you will learn how to make your app look good...