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

So far, we have written one big UI React component, however it's important to talk about how these components help us divide and conquer the complex task that is creating UIs.

Components bring several benefits, and chief among them are the following:

Each component is meant to represent a single chunk of our UI and because each component does not immediately share any global state (even if it is a direct children),  components can have an internal state. This means each component can also encapsulate a specific part of our app's logic.

Once you can encapsulate behavior, the most obvious use case is re-usability. You want to design your components in a way that makes them re-usable throughout your app. You also want to define the props each component will receive in a way that allows for customization without an exponential explosion in complexity.

It will still be hard to grasp what shape a sensible API would take, just from a high-level description, so let's walk through an example. Let's say we want to create a re-usable button component for our app.

Before we write a single line of code, let's try to define certain requirements for our button:

// src/components/button.component.tsx
import React from 'react';
import {View, Text, StyleProp, TouchableOpacityProps, TouchableOpacity, ViewProps} from 'react-native';
import { tw } from 'Tailwind';

interface IProps extends TouchableOpacityProps {
  title: string;
  type?: 'primary' | 'secondary'
  style?: StyleProp<ViewProps>;
}

export const Button = ({title, style, type, ...props}: IProps) => {

  return (
    <TouchableOpacity {...props} >
      <View style={[tw(styles[type]), style]}>
        <Text style={tw('text-white')}>{title}</Text>
      </View>
    </TouchableOpacity>
  );
};

const styles = {
  primary: `bg-cyan p-3 w-24 items-center`,
  secondary: `bg-blue-500 p-3 w-24 items-center`
}

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So far, we have written one big UI React component, however it's important to talk about how these components help us divide and conquer the complex task that is creating UIs.

Components bring several benefits, and chief among them are the following:

## Behavior encapsulation

Each component is meant to represent a single chunk of our UI and because each component does not immediately share any global state (even if it is a direct children),  components can have an internal state. This means each component can also encapsulate a specific part of our app's logic.

Once you can encapsulate behavior, the most obvious use case is re-usability. You want to design your components in a way that makes them re-usable throughout your app. You also want to define the props each component will receive in a way that allows for customization without an exponential explosion in complexity.

## Creating a re-usable button

It will still be hard to grasp what shape a sensible API would take, just from a high-level description, so let's walk through an example. Let's say we want to create a re-usable button component for our app.

Before we write a single line of code, let's try to define certain requirements for our button:

1.  It needs to have a style that fits our app, however there are many kinds of buttons (success, neutral, danger, etc.), so they should all be defined within a single component. 
2.  It should maintain the same API as the default React Native Button component - it has many useful properties and we don't want to re-invent the wheel here. 
3.  We should still be able to customize it a bit for those one-off cases where it needs to be slightly different than the rest of the buttons in the app.

```tsx
// src/components/button.component.tsx
import React from 'react';
import {View, Text, StyleProp, TouchableOpacityProps, TouchableOpacity, ViewProps} from 'react-native';
import { tw } from 'Tailwind';

interface IProps extends TouchableOpacityProps {
  title: string;
  type?: 'primary' | 'secondary'
  style?: StyleProp<ViewProps>;
}

export const Button = ({title, style, type, ...props}: IProps) => {

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Building React Native Apps for Mac

Module 1: Introduction

Introduction:

Start Here

Introduction: (0:58)

Welcome to Building React Native Apps for Mac

Module 2: Getting started

Lesson 1: (1:25)

Walkthrough

Lesson 2:

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

Lesson 3: (2:36)

React Native Pros and Cons for Building macOS Apps

Lesson 4: (11:18)

How to Setup a New React Native Mac App

Module 3: Building bones of the application

Lesson 1: (16:15)

State Management in React Native for Mac With MobX Library

Lesson 2: (7:57)

How to Solve JavaScript Module Resolution with File Structure

Lesson 3: (4:53)

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

Lesson 4: (16:39)

How to Create an API Store in React Native with Axios

Lesson 5: (7:17)

How to Add Tailwind CSS to a React Native Mac App

Lesson 6: (10:43)

How to Use and Customize Tailwind CSS in React Native

Lesson 7: (10:18)

Behavior Encapsulation and React Native Reusable Components

Lesson 8: (14:56)

Add React Native Navigation on macOS with React Navigation

Module 4: Advanced JavaScript topics

Lesson 1: (6:56)

Add Conditional Styles to React Native With Classnames

Lesson 2: (9:40)

Optimize React Native with FlatLists and Native Webview

Module 5: MacOS specific functionality

Lesson 1:

How React and macOS Communicate with React Native Bridge

Lesson 2: (7:31)

How to Add React Native Vector Icons and Custom Fonts

Lesson 3: (18:35)

How to Build a macOS Menu Bar App With React Native

Lesson 4: (10:35)

How to Store Data on macOS Keychain with React Native Bridge

Lesson 5: (13:25)

How to Expose macOS Native Modules to React JavaScript

Lesson 6: (7:44)

How to Quit a React Native App on macOS

Lesson 7: (7:23)

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

Lesson 8:

Limitations of Building Mac Apps With React Native

Lesson 9: (5:00)

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

Module 2: Advanced topics

Lesson 1:

Advanced macOS functionality

Lesson 2: (15:45)

How to Support Multiple Windows in React Native

Lesson 3: (13:29)

Auto Launch a React Native Mac App With Swift Dependencies

Lesson 4: (11:58)

How to Send macOS Notifications From a React Native App

Lesson 5: (23:58)

Add macOS Drag and Drop Support to a React Native App

Lesson 6: (15:37)

How to Handle Events in a React Native Mac App

Module 6: Links and references

Lesson 1: (0:34)

Good bye

Lesson 2:

Links and further reading