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React Native Blueprints

You're reading from   React Native Blueprints Create eight exciting native cross-platform mobile applications with JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288096
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Emilio Rodriguez Martinez Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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Preface 1. Shopping List FREE CHAPTER 2. RSS Reader 3. Car Booking App 4. Image Sharing App 5. Guitar Tuner 6. Messaging App 7. Game 8. E-Commerce App

Linting and code formatting


Writing clean, bug-free code is challenging. There are a lot of pitfalls that we may face such as indentation, importing/exporting misses, tags not closed, and so on. Having to overcome all of them manually is a tough job which can distract us from our main purpose: writing functional code. Luckily, there are a handful of very useful tools to help us with this task.

The tools we will be using in this chapter to ensure our code is clean will be ESLint (https://eslint.org/) and Prettier (https://github.com/prettier/prettier). 

ESLint will be in charge of identifying and reporting on patterns found in the ES6/JavaScript code, with the goal of making the code more consistent and avoiding bugs. For example, ESLint will flag any use of non-declared variables, exposing the error while we are writing code instead of waiting until compilation.

On the other hand, Prettier enforces a consistent code style across your entire codebase because it disregards the original styling...

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