What is the point of StyleSheet.create

Question

I\'m reading the React Native docs / tutorial, and I\'m wondering what the point of the StyleSheet.create function is.

For example, the tutorial has the

Answer 1

Here is there source code of create.

create(obj: T): {[key:$Keys]: number} {
  var result: T = (({}: any): T);
  for (var key in obj) {
    StyleSheetValidation.validateStyle(key, obj);
    result[key] = ReactNativePropRegistry.register(obj[key]);
  }
  return result;
}

I am not an expert of React in any. I actually never used it but here are my insights. It seems that create does some kind of validation over your keys and register them to React.

I think you could skip the validation by simply not calling create but I'm not sure what ReactNativePropRegistry.register does exactly.

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