Bershadskiy Stan - React Native Cookbook

Then, our mantra became "how can we bring the best of both worlds?". From the Web, we borrowed the fast iteration speed and the awesome developer experience with ideas like the element inspector and redbox. Native challenged us to provide an amazing user experience with an acute attention to detail, strong performance, and great gesture support.

As we got to a point where we used it in production and it provided value, we decided to open source it. We knew it was going to be make some buzz, but we had no idea that it would explode as it did. One of our big focuses was to make it a community project, and we worked hard to get core contributors from outside of Facebook. We now have half of the commits contributed by the community!

It's very humbling to see that contributions extended way beyond code. In the digital space, we've seen a huge amount of tutorials and libraries, and it extended to the physical world, with various meetups and conferences all over the world. I'm proud to see that Stan and Crysfel dedicated their time to produce this amazing book about React Native.

React was born out of the frustration that it's way too hard to build software. I hope that this book will help you build awesome and successful user interfaces that will bring real value to your business!

Christopher Chedeau

Frontend Engineer at Facebook

Stan Bershadskiy is an architect at Modus Create and holds a Master's in Computer Science from NYIT. While doing full-stack development, he found working on the frontend most enjoyable because of the speed one can develop and switch focus toward JavaScript. Stan likes to involve himself in anything JavaScript-related, particularly around building rich applications for desktop, web, and mobile. He is located in New York City and can be found co-organizing NYC.JS meetups. More recently, he has focused on promoting React Native by presenting at conferences and publishing blog posts. You can follow him on Twitter at @stan229.

First and foremost, I'd like to thank my wife Lika. You have been my strongest supporter and more importantly putting up with me working on the book all hours of the night. You have been at my side from the first word I wrote, to the edits I just completed at 4 AM. To my son, Aiden, you are the center of my world. There's nothing that brightens my day like seeing you. I simply wouldnt be able to write this book without the support of my wife, son, and parents.

I'd like to thank Crysfel for inviting me on-board to write this book and the work we did together. Brice Mason, you are an amazing colleague and editor. You did an incredible job reviewing the book, you are far more thorough than I ever could be. A special thank you goes out to Christopher Chedeau for embodying the spirit of the React Native community and writing an exemplary foreword.

A very special thank you goes to Jay Garcia. You have been my mentor, sounding board, facilitator, and just an excellent friend. You have helped me with this book in far more ways than I can list. Lastly, a thank you goes out to everyone at Modus Create for supporting me not only during the writing of this book but being the absolute best place to work at.

Crysfel Villa is a senior software engineer at Modus Create. He's a passionate JavaScript coder and an accomplished software developer with over 10 years of experience in technical training, consulting, and systems analysis. Crysfel loves to write about emerging technologies and he has deployed several apps to the Apple Store using React Native. He currently lives in NY and can be found attending tech meetups throughout the city. You can follow him on Twitter at @crysfel.

It has been a very difficult journey to complete this project. I worked on this book while I was in Japan, Korea, Mexico, and NY. Working overseas, on vacations, visiting family and friends, holidays and what not. I'd like to thank my wife Hazel for the huge help she did, reviewing my scripts, sometimes late at night. I wouldn't be able to accomplish this project without her help.

I would also like to thank my dad Felipe, my two youngest brothers Victor and Jaziel, my in-laws and friends for their support, just by continue asking me about the book and encouraging me to continue working hard on it, many thanks to all of them. Special thanks to Brice, who found some missing steps on recipes, suggested things to improve and overall helping us to complete the book on time.