React Native With An Express/MongoDB Backend

Develop and deploy React Native mobile apps powered by a Node, Express and MongoDB server

Anybody who comes from a web background understands that native mobile development is far more complicated. HTML/CSS takes minutes to learn, whereas getting your head around iOS development can take months.

One might also miss the beauty of front-end web frameworks like React; much care must be taken to instil a native mobile app with an organised and meaningful architecture.

Fortunately there is React Native: a framework which enables developers to build their apps with a markup language and stylesheet syntax mimicking that of the web, while bringing all the structure of React with it.

Building apps with React Native, developers have access to the rich ecosystem of open-source Node libraries. What's more, Node is great for server-side development (we'll be using express), and having your front-end and back-end developed in the same language is wonderful. To compound that, we'll be using MongoDB as a database, which reads and writes Javascript objects; communicating between the database, server, and app will be seamless.

By the end of this course you'll be familiar enough with React Native and Node to begin building the entire stack of your next application with it, on your own.