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HelloHello

The cold weather is finally breaking here in NY and we're already dreaming of sunshine, BBQs, and beach days. 😎 But based on the changes in React 16.3 we'll likely be spending a bit of time of that inside updating our apps to use these new goodies pushing React and React Native forward! In the meantime we'll be checking the weather to see if it's UNSAFE_ outside. 🌧 Have a great couple of weeks!

Wyatt McBain  

NewsNews

React Native 0.55

React Native 0.55 was released this past week with a new MIT license and a bunch of awesome updates! 🎉 The full release notes are available above but here are some highlights:

  • Android TV device support 👏🏻
  • Animation tracking with native drivers
  • New InputAccessoryView for iOS
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Libraries & ToolsLibraries & Tools

Fluid Transitions with React Navigation

Learn how to create shared element transitions using React Navigation with FluidTransitions, from the project's author Christian Falch

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React’s ⚛️ new Context API

As most of you know there are a lot of updates to React's Lifecycle API with React 16.3. (More information available here) This post from Kent Dodds walks through the new Context API, which I'm particularly excited about.

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React Native In App Purchase

Add In App Purchases to your React Native app with this write up from the author of react-native-iap, dooboolab.

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VideosVideos

Apple Music Pan Animation Tutorial

Awesome tutorial series on how to recreate the Apple Music Pan animation in React Native. Accompanying files are available here.

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Engineering

React Native + WebP: Reducing bundle + binary sizes, increase speed with .webp image format

An interesting article from Tyler Pate on how to decrease your bundle size in React Native by using the .webp image format.

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