Tips and Outlook

This chapter is divided into two parts. In the first part, I collected the most useful tips on how to make your React Native project a success. These tips come the things I have learned through a lot of different React Native projects I have worked on as a developer, consultant, software architect, or product owner. I also use React Native as a tech stack in my own companies, where I’m responsible for the business side, so I also know the requirements and pain points of this side.

The second part is an outlook on how I think React Native, its community, and its ecosystem will develop in the future. This is based on its technical development as well as the commitment from different big players in the community.

This means you will learn the following things in this chapter:

• Understanding the most important things to make your React Native project a success
• Understanding the bright future of React Native

Technical requirements

Since this is a completely theoretical chapter, there are no technical requirements.

Understanding the most important things to make your React Native project a success

In this book, you learned a lot about the technical basics of how to ensure a successful React Native project. But if you already worked on production projects, you know that a software project never works as described in the books. There are always obstacles and problems that occur out of the blue and deadlines that seem impossible to meet.

These tips will ensure that you are able to overcome these obstacles, solve these problems, and finally succeed in a real-world software project. So, let’s start right away with the tips.

Tip 1 – Find a process you never have to work around

A lot of projects I worked on had clearly defined processes from the beginning, but often, there occurred scenarios where someone worked around the process. A very common example of that is the following:

The business side needs a feature or bugfix to be included in today’s release, leading to...

Understanding the bright future of React Native

When deciding which technology to use, it always plays an important role in how future-proof this technology is. This is especially important in long-running large-scale enterprise projects. So, I decided to end this book with some arguments as to why you can be absolutely sure that React Native is a good choice.

This is particularly interesting because the last years haven’t always been easy for React Native developers. With Flutter, which is based on the very performant two-dimensional (2D) graphics engine Skia, a new solution for cross-platform development emerged and created a huge hype.

Native development got more and more comfortable with the rise of Kotlin and Swift. React Native in the meantime didn’t evolve much. The long-promised refactoring (new architecture), first announced for 2020, took much more time than expected. Some developers started losing faith in React Native.

But this changed in 2022. Now...

Summary

After this outlook, it’s time for a short conclusion to this chapter. In the first part of this chapter, you learned how important a good development process is, tips to be as flexible as possible with your releases, how to monitor your apps’ stability, how to leverage A/B testing, how to use TypeScript in your mobile application, and how to keep your code simple and clean. In the second part, you got to know the most important reasons why React Native has a bright future and discovered that you can be absolutely sure that it is a good choice for your mobile application.

Now, it’s time for final congratulations. You are at the end of this book, and I hope you learned a lot of new and useful things. You should now understand how React Native works and how to use it in large-scale projects to build high-performance apps for multiple platforms, helping you save both time and money.