React Native Now ⚛️ A bi-weekly React Native newsletter

Hello

We're working from home today as our new iPhone X arrives and we have to be home to sign. I'm looking forward to the new gesture based interface, Face ID, and animojis. Be sure to use the iPhone X simulator to check your apps for irregularities and have a great week!

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Open Source

react-native-svg-charts

Awesome SVG charts for React Native.
react-native-collapsingtoolbar

Collapsing toolbar component.
react-native-redux-starter-kit

Boilerplate using React Native and Redux.
react-native-surrender

CLI tool to clean or reset React Native tools when things go out of order.

Latest Jobs

React Native Mobile Product Engineer | Envoy

Envoy is looking for an awesome React Native engineer to help build the office of the future for clients like Slack, Github, and Yelp. With great perks like healthy lunches everyday, unlimited vacation, and travel credits this isn’t one to miss! Did we mention that they’re a distributed/remote team? 😎 Learn more about the position and about the team.

Design

3 Stunning Hi-fi Prototypes for the iPhone X You Should See

Some beautiful examples of apps designed for the iPhone X.

Videos

Oculus' John Carmack Explains Virtual Reality in 5 Levels of Difficulty

Have questions about VR? Get up to speed with this quick video from John Carmack.

Around the Web

The 1–2–3’s of React Native Templates

Learn how to create React Native Templates with this incredible writeup from Chris Geirman.
React Native vs Real Native Apps

A good look at creating an app in native and React Native to gauge the pros and cons of each.
How We Animate Header Titles in React Native

Learn how to create an excellent parallax header from Jason Gaare.
React Native: get end position after scrolling a ScrollView

Nice short post on some undocumented props with React Native's ScrollView to get the Y position at the end of the scroll.

Challenges of Supporting iPhone X

Great post here from the PSPDFKit Team on the challenges they faced updating their SDKs for the iPhone X and how they overcame them.

Random

Thought this Bio video was hilarious this past week and figured some of you might enjoy it too. 🤓

React Native

React Native 0.50

React Native October 0.50 was released this past week with some breaking changes and improvements. You can get the full release notes here, but here are some highlights:

<Image> with nested content is no longer supported. Looking into <ImageBackground> instead if this is something you did in our app.
Overflow hidden is fixed on Android. 🎉
Android Oreo (8.0) support.
Support for null titles in AlertIOS.

Frameworks

react-navigation

react-navigation was released with beta.17 this past week. The updates keep coming and it's great to see the project move forward, great work to their team. 👏🏻

Podcasts

React Native VR & AR featuring Vik Advani of Viro Media

Great episode on React Native Radio talking about VR & AR in React Native.