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-evenlynow 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.
devlabs.bg
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.
medium.com
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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!
weworkremotely.com
Design
Good to great UI animation tips
Make your app dazzle with these great animation tips and exampled from Pablo Stanley.
uxdesign.cc
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.
medium.com
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.
codedaily.io
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!
expo.io
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 👨🏻🍳👌🏻.
medium.com
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The React Native community keeps growing, our tools keep getting better, and what we are able to achieve cross-platform increases with each release. We're excited to share this journey with you and hope you enjoy this React Native newsletter as much as we love sharing it with you.
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Wyatt McBain