React Native 0.54 March 13th 2018

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News

React Native 0.54

React Native was released with version 0.54 last week 🎉. The full release notes are available here, some highlights:

Blob support 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Support for the latest React version, there will be console warning about lifecycle deprecations until React Native is updated.
space-evenly now supported (release notes were incorrect for 0.52)

Libraries & Tools

React Navigation: Disable Android hardware back button on specific screen

A common problem for Android React Native development, managing the hardware back button for certain navigation flows. This article from Hristo Eftimov shows you how to manage that use case with react-navigation.

Evaluating third party authentication providers for React Native

Authentication is challenging, but SaaS providers can make this a breeze. This write up from Lance Harper walks you through some options that work great for React Native.

Open Source

react-native-morphing-text

This little morphing text component for React Native is 🔥🔥🔥

react-native-lottie-minion

Great demo on a Lottie animation in React Native

awesome-react-native-native-modules

A fairly comprehensive list of available React Native native modules

react-native-animated-emoji

Floating emoji reaction component for React Native 🤪

Latest Jobs

Remote React Native Engineer

We’re looking for talented React Native engineers to partner with amazing product companies to work as part of a team on React Native apps for iOS and Android. We regularly partner with Y Combinator funded product companies that place a high value on engineering. Remote!

Design

Good to great UI animation tips

Make your app dazzle with these great animation tips and exampled from Pablo Stanley.

10 cheat codes for designing User Interfaces

Some great design basics tips in this article from Riel M. Great reference for nailing down design in new apps.

Videos

Use Yarn Workspaces to Share Code with a create-react-app and create-react-native-app in a Monorepo

Great video from Jason Brown on creating an monorepo for a Universal React Native App using Yarn workspaces. I think that Universal apps will be more the norm this year, so a good way to get organized if you jump into this realm.

Engineering

So You Want to Build a Bluetooth App with React Native and Expo

Incredible step-by-step guide from Adrian Carolli on creating a bluetooth React Native app with Expo. Don't have a use case for this yet but keeping this one in the back of my mind for when it comes up!

What the React Native docs forgot to tell you about animations

I've always found the React Native animation docs a bit thin. This awesome article from Karen de Graaf fills the gaps and helps get your animations looking 👨🏻‍🍳👌🏻.