Description
Thinking in React Native explores how experienced engineers design, reason about, and maintain long-lived React Native applications. Rather than focusing on syntax, tutorials, or libraries, this book examines the mental models behind architecture, performance, state ownership, navigation, platform constraints, and technical trade-offs.It treats React Native as a distributed, multi-threaded system and explains how real-world production issues emerge over time. The book addresses performance beyond benchmarks, architectural decisions that age well (or poorly), dependency decay, refactoring strategies, and the responsibilities of senior engineers maintaining systems under changing constraints.This is a book about thinking clearly, making conscious trade-offs, and building React Native applications that survive years of evolution. Abdelfattah Ragab is a senior software engineer focused on designing and building software systems that must operate reliably at scale and evolve over time. His work spans system architecture, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability across modern web and backend technologies.He has experience working on complex production systems where correctness, clarity, and responsible decision-making matter more than short-term trends or tools. His writing focuses on helping experienced engineers develop stronger mental models, architectural judgment, and the ability to reason about tradeoffs in real-world software systems.Abdelfattah writes for professionals who are responsible not just for delivering features, but for shaping systems that must remain understandable, adaptable, and trustworthy as requirements and teams change.
