Design
How to Conduct Usability Testing Easily & Quickly
Learn how your users use your product and why with Usability Testing, outlined in this great post from Amy Smith.
Creative Motion: 12 Concepts of Interface Animation.
12 awesome interface animation concepts.
Around the Web
Simple React Native Android Releases
Learn how to release your app on the Google Play store with another great tutorial from Gant Laborde.
Debugging React Native and Redux with React Native Debugger
Nice post here from Gunnari Auvinen on how to debug React Native and Redux with React Native Debugger.
Polyline Sorcery With React Native
Learn how to create a polyline with
react-native-mapswith this article from Ravish Rawal.How We’re Sharing Code Between React and React Native
Nice writeup here from Robert Vogt on how his team shares code between React Native and React.
Setup Continuous Integration with React Native
Another great post from Spencer Carli on how to get up and running with Visual Studio's App Center.
Frameworks
React Navigation Beta 20
React Navigation released Beta 20 this week with the following highlights:
- Upgraded to React Native 0.50 and Flow 0.56 and have begun exporting full type definitions
- Custom headers and back buttons now receive props from React Navigation
- TabBarBottom now accepts styling options
- Transition configurations between tabs
JavaScript
Why we have banned default exports in Javascript and you should do the same
Great post here from Krzysztof Kaczor on removing default exports from your modules and why. Definitely food for thought. 🍗
Sponsored
React Native Themes from Strap UI
Get your next React Native project up and running fast with a great theme from Strap UI. Check out their awesome options including eCommerce, Dating, and Taxi app themes and starters. 📱
Redux
The most unknown redux performance trick
Learn how to optimize your Redux store with the
areStatesEqualoption in this post from Julien De Luca.-
Nice pattern here from Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo on the how and why to namespace Redux actions to make sense of that boilerplate.
Sponsorship
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We're still feasting on leftovers from Thanksgiving here in the States and are having a tough time looking down this week. But we really enjoyed our Holiday with friends and family and we're looking forward to more of that in the coming months. Hope you did the same and have a great week!
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Wyatt | React Native Coach