ReactFoo Pune

If you are a React Native developer, you build native mobile applications using JavaScript and React. However, you are dependent on a backend which you will definitely need to handle tasks such as push-notifications, authentication, chats etc. Given that you know JavaScript, you can easily learn to write a backend server and achieve all the aforementioned tasks. Also, you can deploy them very easily using Docker and Kubernetes.

This talk is about setting up a custom API, deploying it and integrating it with a React Native application. We will go over writing a simple nodeJS server with functionalities like push notifications, web sockets etc and integrate it with a React Native Application. Finally, we will talk about an efficient way to deploy this server.

Outline

1. Need for fullstack
   • The world is moving towards fullstack
   • Why limit yourself to just front end when backend is incredibly easy
2. Setting up and integrating a nodeJS API with react-native
   • Simple API client: fetch
   • Adding push notifications
   • Websockets API and integrating websockets API with react-native
   • Session Management
3. Deploying API
   • Dockerising
   • Deploying with kubernetes
4. Conclude why the transition from front-end to fullstack is really easy

Speaker bio

• Engineer at Hasura
• React Native Enthusiast
• I like to write code and build muscle

Links

• https://twitter.com/_rishichandra
• https://github.com/wawhal

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eZ4NmzoUsVsFHfUeRzIK88P7U_Sz3NQH10DkL9rIJME/edit?usp=sharing