The React Native playbook: everything we learned building production apps
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Building a React Native app that runs on your phone in development takes minutes. Shipping it to the App Store with auth, notifications, smooth animations, and solid performance takes weeks — not because any single piece is hard, but because the full picture spans six domains that no single tutorial covers end to end.
This is the guide we wish existed when we started building Appifex. It covers everything from file-based routing to App Store submission, with the actual code and the actual gotchas.