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‘Building a Scalable Chat UI in React Native: A Modular Approach’ 🚀
When developing a chat application in React Native, maintaining a clean and scalable UI can be challenging. A well-structured project with reusable components not only improves code readability but also makes future updates effortless. Instead of putting everything into a single file, breaking down the UI into modular components ensures better maintainability and scalability.
In this article, we’ll walk through a modular approach to building a modern chat UI in React Native. We’ll divide our UI into smaller, reusable components like ChatHeader, ChatList, StoryList, and more. This approach follows best practices in UI development — keeping the UI separate from the data logic, making components self-contained, and improving reusability across the app.
By the end of this guide, you’ll have a well-structured chat screen built with reusable components that can be easily extended or modified. Let’s dive in and build a clean, maintainable chat UI! 🚀
Project Overview
Let’s take a look at the final Chat UI and how our project structure is organised. This will help us understand how different components come together to create a clean and modular chat interface.
