Masiello E. - Mastering React Native

Eric Masiello is a lead software engineer for Vistaprint Digital. Formerly, Eric worked as a principal frontend engineer for the Advisory Board Company and built mobile apps for the Education Advisory Board. Eric has worked primarily as a frontend/UI developer for over 10 years and freelances as a website designer/developer at http://www.synbydesign.com. He has taught frontend topics at General Assembly in Washington, D.C. and was a technical reviewer for Mastering ReactJS, a video by Packt Publishing.

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First and foremost, I must extend an enormous thank you to my beautiful, talented, and always-inspiring wife, Hyun. If not for her support, this book would honestly not exist. My deepest gratitude also goes out to my family: Mom, Dad, Brian, Juliana, Nicolas, Umma, and my sisters Hannah, Min, and Carroll. Im truly blessed to have such a wonderful and supportive family.Shout out to all the inspiring people Ive had the honor of working with over the years. Ive learned so much from all of you. Thanks to Keith, Michael, Andrew, Scott, Shelley, Kelly, the inimitable Karthik, Jesse, Jaworski, Beth, Mat, Anbu, Ashwin, Kevin, Ann, all my PIC/RCS homies, the EAB dev/UI team, the entire ABC/EAB UX team, and finally my new Vistaprint Digital family.Thank you to all my close friends who have balanced me, challenged me, shared a drink, or just a laugh: Bryan, Alan, Chris, Kyril, Brandon, April, and the whole Expansion Broadcast + DC crew.Thank you to everyone at Packt for bringing me along on this amazing (and sleepless) journey. And finally, thanks to my coauthor Jacob for all the work he did in realizing this book and for agreeing to even write a book with someone he had known for all of two weeks.

Jacob Friedmann is a developer living in Seattle, WA. He has been working as a developer professionally for 5 years and is currently a principal software engineer at AddThis, an Oracle company. At AddThis, he works on large front and backend applications. He also builds mobile applications using React Native, including Audicy (http://audicy.io), which will soon be launched on the App Store. He has taught several classes, including frontend web development and JavaScript development through General Assembly in Washington D.C.

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Writing a book (my first!) is hard, and I dont think I would have been able to do it without the support of my loving boyfriend, Matt. He weathered my frequent complaining in stride and kept me focused when I needed it most. For that, I am incredibly grateful.Huge thanks to all of my AddThis family who have always inspired me to keep learning and pushed me to do my best work.To all of my friends and family, who were patient with me when I became a recluse to finish this project, thank you. You are loved, and I promise not to do this again for a while!Finally, to Eric for pulling me along on this adventure. I definitely didnt know what I was getting myself into when I agreed to this, but I cant imagine having a more dedicated and capable partner.

Patrick Puritscher began developing websites at the age of 14 by teaching himself the necessary skills. Already using React.js, he started to develop with React Native, shortly after watching the initial presentation. He is also active in the community with his open source components and recently published an app for iOS, completely written with React Native.After graduating with his bachelors degree, Patrick worked as the lead developer for multiple internally used web apps and a website with several million visits each month. It is his personal ambition to create software for people that makes their life easier, rather than making it more difficult with poor UX.Patrick has just started with his masters degree in Business Informatics.

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