What are the best ways to Handle data in React-Native Mobile App?

Question

Since I'm from a Objective-c / Swift background and new to React and React-Native, it's difficult to sink into the new environment. I had a couple of research on React-Native, which helped me to understand some basic concepts like components, States, props etc.

I am stuck at the part where how the React-native apps handles the data, like storing and fetching. In ios, we can use core data framework to handle all those stuff. During those research, I came across Redux & AsyncStorage. Most of the tutorials recommend using Redux for storing data. But What I understood is that they help to store or handles States of the application and AsyncStorage is used only as a key-value storage.

From an iOS developer point of view, what could be the best solution in handling the data when coming to a React-Native app (Like coreData).

I did have a peek at this query:

What are my options for storing data when using React Native? (iOS and Android)

But I'm not satisfied with the solution. Could anyone please help me out here?

Answer 1

I know it's already in the associated link you supplied but just adding redux-persists with redux handles most of the storage requirements for iOS, Android, Electron and Web apps.

As for the complexity, at the end of the day, in most storage engine cases, it's all JSON stringified under the hood so nesting isn't much of an issue if you need a more complex dataset.

redux-persists manages the storage engine for you.

More info: https://github.com/rt2zz/redux-persist#storage-engines