6 posts tagged with "Backend"

Expo Router API routes give React Native teams a practical middle ground between "everything is client-side" and "we need a separate backend project before we can ship." With EAS Hosting, those routes can be deployed alongside an Expo Router web app and used for server-side work such as secrets, validation, webhooks, AI calls, and small backend endpoints.

React Native teams now have two practical ways to add serious AI features to a mobile app:

• call Gemini models through Firebase AI Logic from a Firebase-aware app;
• keep AI orchestration on your own backend and call OpenAI from the server.

Both approaches can be correct. The wrong choice is usually the one that ignores secrets, user identity, App Store release cycles, cost controls, and how quickly your AI product will evolve.

Subscriptions look simple in product mockups: show plans, take payment, unlock premium features. In a real React Native app, subscriptions touch StoreKit, Google Play Billing, receipt validation, renewals, refunds, grace periods, intro offers, backend entitlements, app review, and customer support.

Firebase and Supabase are both strong backend choices for React Native apps, but they optimize for different teams. Firebase gives you a mature Google-backed app platform. Supabase gives you a PostgreSQL-centered backend with SQL, Row Level Security, and an open-source stack.

AWS Amplify is a framework that lets us develop a web or mobile application quickly. In this tutorial, we are going to continue to learn how to perform CRUD operations with the database by using GraphQL mutations. AWS Amplify has a complete toolchain wiring and managing APIs with GraphQL. The API we will be creating in this tutorial is a GraphQL API using AWS AppSync (a managed GraphQL service) and the database will be Amazon DynamoDB (a NoSQL database).

WordPress exposes a REST API that React Native apps can use for blog readers, news apps, documentation hubs, content-heavy ecommerce apps, and publisher experiences. The API is useful out of the box for public posts, pages, categories, tags, users, media, and custom content exposed by plugins such as Advanced Custom Fields.

The production challenge is not fetching one post. It is handling pagination, HTML content, media URLs, caching, empty states, authentication boundaries, and safe write operations without leaking WordPress credentials into the mobile app.