You mean "newbie" as in never programmed a single line of code before or "newbie" as in a programming background but just new to React Native?
I recently started to play around with React Native since I wanted to make a specific app. I first learned React and Redux for the web and then applied that knowledge to React Native.
You don't have to learn Redux though but if you want to build anything beyond trivial you will have to do state management so you might as well pick the most popular way of doing that.
I've been at it for 7 or so weeks now (full-time) and I have a running iOS/Android app (this time also includes building an API the app talks to and an admin area for admins to login to for house keeping purposes). I still need to finish up "loads" of details but I'm over the major learning curve (I think).
If this book would have been any help to me? Looking through the chapter topics, I think not. To me, the real useful information would be more about the differences and similarities in how to implement good UI/UX for both iOS and Android, generating the required certificates, publishing to the app stores etc.
I have been developing software for 20+ years, if that makes a difference.
We're writing it so that new newcomers to React can still pick up the fundamentals of the API while learning React Native at the same time. However, the content is geared towards developers who have at least a basic understanding of JavaScript, so you may need to pick up some of the core concepts of the language first before purchasing a book like this.
With that being said, our first chapter is free and goes through building a stand-alone app from start to finish. You can definitely give that a shot first if you're still unsure :)
That's definitely up to you. The second chapter of this book shares a lot of the fundamentals in one of the earlier chapters in Fullstack React on core concepts of the React API. However if you feel like you would benefit from learning how to build web applications with React first - that can definitely be a better starting point. Otherwise if you're considering building iOS/Android apps with RN without much prior experience with React, this book will be just fine as we don't expect our readers to be proficient with React :)
I recently started to play around with React Native since I wanted to make a specific app. I first learned React and Redux for the web and then applied that knowledge to React Native.
You don't have to learn Redux though but if you want to build anything beyond trivial you will have to do state management so you might as well pick the most popular way of doing that.
I've been at it for 7 or so weeks now (full-time) and I have a running iOS/Android app (this time also includes building an API the app talks to and an admin area for admins to login to for house keeping purposes). I still need to finish up "loads" of details but I'm over the major learning curve (I think).
If this book would have been any help to me? Looking through the chapter topics, I think not. To me, the real useful information would be more about the differences and similarities in how to implement good UI/UX for both iOS and Android, generating the required certificates, publishing to the app stores etc.
I have been developing software for 20+ years, if that makes a difference.