Issue 27 March 27th 2018

News

Upcoming Limitations to iOS Expo Client

Unfortunately, we're losing a couple of features in the Expo iOS client, thanks to Apple's new Review Guidelines 😒 If you were using it to share your app with testers, make sure to update to Test Flight or Crashlytics ASAP!

Libraries & Tools

Animated Transition in React Native!

Oh my, animated transition heaven 😍 If your app transitions feel too choppy, it's time to spruce them up with this awesome, easy to use animation library 🌈

Programming a React Native app using only an iPhone

I've always wanted to be able to write code using only my iPad, and now it's possible! Of course, it's extremely limited, there is no debugging environment, no way to see if your code actually compiles, and no way to prototype your UI, but well, it's better than nothing 😋

Open Source

react-native-queue

Ever wondered if React Native could handle complex task management, job queues and multithreading? The answer is YES, thanks to this 🔥 library!

react-testing-library

Sweet new lightweight tool to improve your testing practices!

react-native-scaling-drawer

Slick looking scaled drawer component! 🧐 I've seen this animation in several apps and always wanted to implement something similar.

react-native-offline

Just stumbled upon this last week and I wonder how I survived so long without making my apps offline ready! Time for some UX improvements 💪🏽

Latest Jobs

Mobile Application Engineer at Mylo (Montreal, Canada)

Mylo is a leading Canadian FinTech company that is completely re-imagining personal finance. Our purpose is to empower everyone to achieve their financial goals in a simple and stress-free way by removing the burden of actively managing their finances.

Design

Design systems and decision making

Since I've heard of design systems at a Sketch meet-up a few months back, I've been a total believer! Too often, designs are made too difficult to be consumed by developers. In one of my past projects, there were over 50 different types of labels and font types. If your team is struggling with inconsistencies in designs, this article is for you!

Videos

React Native, 2 years later

When I first heard that Artsy, the team behind CocoaPods and Moya, had switched to React Native, it strengthened my belief that RN was the right way forward for my team and I. Now that they're two years in, they took the time to reflect on their decision and share those insights with the world. A must-watch! 😍

Comment

Welcome back everyone! 😁

It's been a pretty chill couple of weeks, apart from one of our apps suddenly not compiling on Android, thanks to the latest release of Google Play service 😅 We got a solution pretty quickly thanks to that thread though, so no complaints!

Great news: the other React Native Newsletter is now also releasing on a bi-weekly schedule, alternating with Let's React's schedule. What does this mean? Well, if you're subscribed to both letsreact.io and reactnative.cc, you'll get awesome curated React Native content straight to your inbox every single week!!! Time to put your subscriber hat on 🎩!

Alright then, I won't keep you any longer, there are some pretty awesome links waiting for you!

Cheers and enjoy! 👋🏼

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Engineering

4 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Push Notification Provider for a React Native App

Spencer Carli wrote up a very interesting comparison of the existing push notification services, their pros and their cons. Definitely worth a read if you're planning on implementing push notifications soon! 👌🏼

Setting debug server URL for running app on device for iOS/Xcode.

I've been looking for something like this to be able to use Reactotron while my app is running on an iPhone. 💯

Business

Who will steal Android from Google?

Super insightful article by Steve Yegge on the state of Android today from a business perspective! 👏🏼