Top 9 Tools for Easy & Speedy React Native App Development
Developing Reach Native apps has become competitive in the industry.
Looking at the above Google Trends, React Native is highly trending amongst the developers and even the mobile app development companies compared to Cross-Platform and Mean Stack.
But, not all developers have the knowledge about the tools, libraries, and plugins being used to develop React Native apps.
So, here is a quick list of React Native app development tools that help you get started easily, smartly and even confidently with iOS and Android app development:
1. Reduxsauce
Being a React Native app developer, you know how it is difficult to create Reducers and Actions on Redux.
Redux is good, but while working on large applications it is not efficient. It becomes difficult with Redux to create Reducers and Actions as you cannot have too large Switch statements in just one Reducer.
But, Reduxsauce is one of the simplest tools for all the Redux needs. Reduxsauce uses fewer lines of code and those codes are easy-to-read.
Also, when you want to reset your Reducer, Reduxsauce comes with an easy option to do that. Unlike Redux, Reduxsauce can handle Reducer Actions within one file.
2. Expo
Expo is an open source toolchain that helps you to develop React Native mobile apps at a super fast speed using JavaScript and React. This tool is open source so, obviously, it is FREE.
Expo has just one codebase with which you can use the React Native components on both iOS and Android.
The best part of this tool is that you can publish updates of your app faster without even using Xcode and Android Studio.
3. Reactotron
So, you develop a React Native app, launch it and it is good-to-go. If this is a process a developer follows, the app will definitely fail in the market.
Any application needs to be tested enough before its launch. Reactotron is a tool by Infinite Red that tests the React JS and React Native mobile apps easily and efficiently.
Reactotron is a free and easy-to-install React Native debugging tool that does not slow down your machine while debugging and even logs everything that you want.
4. Ignite CLI
Ignite is a tool that accelerates the development of React Native applications. This tool helps in generating boilerplates, plugins, Redux files, styles, tests and even components. React Native developer can now choose from a great list of boilerplates and even can choose any plugins to support the development of React Native apps.
You don’t need to depend on any libraries to use while working with Ignite as it does not provide runtime. It is just a development tool, but much more powerful compared to Ignite 1. Ignite CLI is developed and tested by Infinite Red. Hence, it is used and tested by their developers on a regular basis.
Indeed a great React Native development tool.
5. Redux
Redux is said to be a state container or you can say a library for JavaScript apps. It is an open-source JS library. You can use it with React and even with Angular to develop user interfaces (US).
It is easy to code and test React Native apps with Redux. The apps written in Redux can be executed on client-side, server-side and on native environments. Live code modification is available in Redux with a time-traveller debugger.
6. Atom
Atom is a hackable text editor by Github that is modern and approachable. It allows you to share your workspace with other developers and edit the code together in real time. This does not allow you to edit a config file. It also improves the language integrations.
To develop React Native apps, you can combine the features and functionalities of various open-source packages. Customization and styling are easy with Atom.
7. Nuclide
Nuclide is a React Native app development IDE developed by Facebook. It has the collection of features from Atom React Native development tool. Nuclide IDE functionality is used for various programming languages and technologies.
Nuclide includes,
● Super debugging support for React Native, Hack, Flow and other platforms
● Complete access to the file resides on your server-side on your remote desktop
● Supports Flow, autocomplete, jump-to-definition & inline errors to improve the quality of your JavaScript
● Task Runner to develop, test and debug your Buck, Hack & Swift apps
Due to certain limitations in distribution, Nuclide is not said to be open-source.
8. Flow
Flow is a static type checker for JavaScript. It is an open-source tool by Facebook. Flow is extremely easy to install and it provides you the smoother upgrade experience for your React Native app.
It is easy to write code for React Native mobile apps using Flow even when you want to code big. Flow is smart enough to understand your code and bring the information available of the smart tools used in your code. Flow allows you to easily edit the large codebases without worrying about breaking the code.
9. ESLint
ESLint is a powerful and fully pluggable JavaScript linting tool developed by JS Foundation to identify and report on patterns found in JavaScript. In ESLint, each rule is named as a plugin and those plugins are editable and expandable at runtime.
ESLint has a list of default rules with which you can start with React Native app development. You can use ESLint using Node.js and it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Bonus List
With the above list, you can start developing React Native apps instantly. But, you can even explore the below tools to get upgraded with your React Native development knowledge, skills, and experience.
Visual Studio Code — This is a lightweight yet super powerful source code editor. You might have worked on this for your various development languages and runtime.
React Native Tools — This is an extension of Visual Studio Code to develop React Native Apps.
Get started with these tools to make your React Native app development a success within less time and efforts.
