React Native: Building Mobile Apps

- [Steve] React Native is a rapidly growing framework for building mobile applications using JavaScript. No, not hybrid apps, true native applications with native performance. My name is Steven Emmerich, and I have been building back-end, front-end, and mobile web based applications for over five years. I'm here to take you through building a mobile application in React Native. This course will cover using the React Native command line interface to create a new project, how to use Firebase as a serverless back-end for authentication database storage, and file storage, how to interact with the camera through React Native, and how to use MobX to manage our application state.

While React Native is still under active development and working towards a version 1.0, it's used in production by several companies, like Facebook who maintains React Native. Its ease of use and native performance have put it in prime position to take over the mobile development world. Okay, let's get building.