Managing React Native Form State with Redux-Form

Chances are, you have had to implement some kind of a form while developing your mobile apps. It may be a simple login form or a complex reporting system, nevertheless, you will face some challenges. How do you validate the data? Where do you store the form state? How do you control the form’s lifecycle? Answers to these and many other questions are waiting below, where I tell you how to use Redux Form with React Native.

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Advanced testing in React Native with Jest: Components

This post is part of my series on unit testing with Jest in React Native. You can find the introduction here.

In the previous parts, I went through why unit testing is vital and how to test your components using snapshots. While snapshot testing is effective, it fails to test some aspects of the component. Now I would like to talk about more advanced component testing in react native.

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Developing a TODO app with Flutter – Part 3

In this series of tutorials, I will walk you through the process of creating a TODO app with the Flutter framework. By the end, you will have a cross-platform TODO mobile application, which allows you to add, edit, remove and complete tasks, while persisting the data on Google Firebase. The series spans across 3 parts:

Part 1 – Setting up the development environment and creating the project
Part 2 – Implementing core functionality
Part 3 – Connecting your app to Google Firebase

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Developing a TODO app with Flutter – Part 1

In this series of tutorials, I will walk you through the process of creating a TODO app with the Flutter framework. By the end, you will have a cross-platform TODO mobile application, which allows you to add, edit, remove and complete tasks, while persisting the data on Google Firebase. The series spans across 3 parts:

Part 1 – Setting up the development environment and creating the project
Part 2 – Implementing core functionality
Part 3 – Connecting your app to Google Firebase

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