Professional React Native

Expert techniques and solutions for building high-quality, cross-platform, production-ready apps

Alexander Benedikt Kuttig

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Professional React Native

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To my wife, Karin, for her love, support, and inspiration. To my daughter, Leonie, for showing me how talent and creativity evolve every day. To my parents, Roswitha and Burkhard, and my brother, Dominik, for always being there for me. To my business partners, Werner and Philipp, for always having my back. And to all my colleagues for making my job absolutely awesome.

– Alexander Benedikt Kuttig

Contributors

About the author

Alexander Benedikt Kuttig has a master’s degree in computer science and currently works as a software and app architect. With plenty of industry experience, he has created app architecture for different industries, such as education, sports and fitness, manufacturing, printing, and banking, which have been used by millions of users across the globe.

He runs multiple businesses, such as Horizon Alpha, an app development agency, and Teamfit, a digital corporate health platform. He also speaks about his work at different conferences, such as RNEU and the Geekle Cross-Platform Summit, and has a blog on Medium, which he uses to write about the challenges he faces. Alexander is highly experienced as a React Native developer, speaker, and contributor.

About the reviewer

Charles Mangwa is a weathered React Native expert who has been working with the framework for the past 7 years. His knowledge spans over, IoT focused projects, mobile DevOps and he also has published several open source libraries. While the whole React Native ecosystem is his tool of choice, whenever the JavaScript fatigue hits, he can be found working with Dart, building apps in Flutter.