Welcome to building React Native apps for Mac

Welcome to Building React Native Apps for Mac

Introduction

Walkthrough

What is React Native? The Mac and Mobile Web App Framework

React Native Pros and Cons for Building macOS Apps

How to Setup a New React Native Mac App

Getting started

State Management in React Native for Mac With MobX Library

How to Solve JavaScript Module Resolution with File Structure

How to Fetch Data From a REST API in a React Native Mac App

How to Create an API Store in React Native with Axios

How to Add Tailwind CSS to a React Native Mac App

How to Use and Customize Tailwind CSS in React Native

Behavior Encapsulation and React Native Reusable Components

Add React Native Navigation on macOS with React Navigation

Building bones of the application

Add Conditional Styles to React Native With Classnames

Optimize React Native with FlatLists and Native Webview

Advanced JavaScript topics

How React and macOS Communicate with React Native Bridge

How to Add React Native Vector Icons and Custom Fonts

How to Build a macOS Menu Bar App With React Native

How to Store Data on macOS Keychain with React Native Bridge

How to Expose macOS Native Modules to React JavaScript

How to Quit a React Native App on macOS

How to Add Hover and Focus States to a React Native Mac App

Limitations of Building Mac Apps With React Native

Build and Publish a React Native App on the Mac App Store

MacOS specific functionality

Advanced macOS functionality

How to Support Multiple Windows in React Native

Auto Launch a React Native Mac App With Swift Dependencies

How to Send macOS Notifications From a React Native App

Add macOS Drag and Drop Support to a React Native App

How to Handle Events in a React Native Mac App

Advanced topics

Good bye

Links and further reading

Links and references

react-native

node.js

typescript

tailwind-rn

In this course we will explore react-native as a framework for building macOS applications. Unlike web based tools, react-native offers a lot of benefits when it comes to performance and the ability to leverage native functionality.

React-native is not without its difficulties and the jump to a desktop environment requires not only novel technical solutions but also a different way of dealing with APIs and UI patterns.

In 30 lessons we cover setting up a scalable application architecture, connecting with native macOS APIs and exploring some workarounds. The course comes with a lot of new techniques, code samples and detailed instructions to develop React Native apps that are truly equal to native alternatives.

Taught by Oscar Franco, who has worked in several companies as team lead and CTO, released a bunch of React Native apps and has contributed many of the newest latest techniques for react-native-macos.

In this course we will learn how to create modern macOS applications using react-native, take advantage of all the goodies react-native provides on the mac.

Building React Native Apps for Mac

How to set up a scalable architecture for your application

How to leverage native APIs with JavaScript

How to create great desktop native experiences

Let's start by getting the basics out of the way: 

 is a framework for creating multi-platform apps (for iOS, Android, smart TVs, web etc) based on the JavaScript and React. It is (mainly) maintained by Facebook.

React is a framework that was created due to the need to keep JavaScript SPAs (single page applications) performant. It works by declaring UI elements as functions. 

By doing this the user interface becomes declarative; given the same inputs, it should produce the same outputs

Although originally it was not the main focus, React put the spotlight onto breaking your UI into chunks, or components, and this abstraction works really well to divide your UI into manageable sized pieces of code.

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Let's start by getting the basics out of the way: [React Native](https://reactnative.dev) is a framework for creating multi-platform apps (for iOS, Android, smart TVs, web etc) based on the JavaScript and React. It is (mainly) maintained by Facebook.

## Why React though?

React is a framework that was created due to the need to keep JavaScript SPAs (single page applications) performant. It works by declaring UI elements as functions. **By doing this the user interface becomes declarative; given the same inputs, it should produce the same outputs**.

Although originally it was not the main focus, React put the spotlight onto breaking your UI into chunks, or components, and this abstraction works really well to divide your UI into manageable sized pieces of code.

## Microsoft joins the fight

Last year, Microsoft decided to jump into the ring and add support for both [Windows and macOS](https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/). The macOS port uses either Objective-C or Swift for the native code, and the Windows version uses C#. We will use Swift to interact with the native APIs of macOS, and some of the knowledge should be transferable to Windows if you can program in C#.