Chapter 8. E-Commerce App

Online shopping is something most retailers have adopted, but users are slowly migrating from websites to mobile apps. That's why e-commerce has set a strong focus on responsive websites, which can be seamlessly accessed from a desktop computer or a mobile browser. Along with that, users also demand higher standards of quality which cannot always be met by even the most responsive websites. Loading times, laggy animations, non-native components, or a lack of native features may hurt user experiences resulting in low conversion rates.

Building our e-commerce app in React Native can reduce the development efforts required due to the possibility of reusing some web components, which were already designed for the web (using React.js). Besides that, we can reduce the time to market and development costs, making React Native a very attractive tool for small and medium-sized businesses willing to sell their products or services online.

In this chapter, we will focus on building...