Open Source
Open Source
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Include a SVG from FlatIcon's library with this CLI tool.
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React Native OpenTok is wrapper for the TokBox OpenTok SDK for streaming media.
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.
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Design
A List of User Experience Goals That UX Designers Should Set
Been getting back into doing a bit of prototyping and this list of UX pointers from Amy Smith has been a good resource.
Around the Web
A comprehensive guide for integrating React-Navigation with Redux including authentication flow
Incredible post from Shubhnik Singh Mann on how to integrate react-navigation with redux. We're looking to start a new project over the next few weeks with both of these and this article is going to come in handy!
GraphQL Authentication with React Native & Apollo
Amazing two part series from Spencer Carli on how to implement Authentication in React Native with GraphQL Apollo. Catch part 1 and part 2 of this series.
Boost Your User Experience with Lottie for React Native
Great write up from Samuli Hakoniemi on how to quickly integrate Lottie into your React Native app to improve your user experience and get the designers excited on your team.
Beginner’s Guide to Gradle for Android Developers
Nice resource for React Native developers new to native development who need an instructional on Gradle build files. If you've ejected from Expo recently this one's for you.
Unit Testing Higher-Order Components with Enzyme and Jest
I've always struggled with testing HoCs, this article from Farzad YZ got me going.
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Make your app iPhone X ready with
SafeAreaViewfrom Nader Dabit.
React Native
React Native Monthly #5
The React Native Monthly meeting took place last week with the following highlights:
- Callstack has continued to work on Haul, adding Webpack 3 support
- Expo is focusing on improving the experience for larger apps
- Facebook has been working on improving RTL support and is working on a codegen for creating Java and Objective-C interfaces with flow
- Infinite Red created a CLI for React Native teams, Solidarity
GraphQL
The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together
Have questions about how the GraphQL stack works? This post from Sashko Stubailo gets you up to speed.
All you need to know about Apollo Client 2
Learn about all the new features in Apollo Client 2 in this post from the Graphcool team.
Redux
How Redux Can Make You a Better Developer
Improve your craft while learning Redux from Danijel Vincijanovic.
Seeing Through Redux with Lenses
Manage your Redux state with functional programming and lenses, from Tim Roberts.
Non Technical
The Science Behind Viral Apps (and How to Build One)
Learn how to make your next app go viral with these great lessons from Josiah Humphrey.
Sponsorship
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The response online to the iPhone X has been mostly positive and we love ours. The new gesture based interface has definitely made me rethink how I interact with my phone and I'm excited to see how it grows.
A bit off topic but this week we wrote about how we manage and automate a lot of the responsibilities in our life with Airtable. You can read about it here and get a head start on your personal dashboard with the template we've created.
Have a great week!
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Wyatt | React Native Coach