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News

Play Store’s “Best app of 2018” is built on React Native

The Play Store recently released their yearly ranking of "Best Apps", and the one that received the first award is Drops, a language learning app. One of the co-founders of the app released this Medium blog post explaining that this app was actually written using React Native. Make sure to tell that to your skeptic friends :)

Libraries & Tools

Detox your GraphQL

Super interesting tutorial on how to mock and control a GraphQL server with Detox to make your React Native End to End testing environment independent of your app. When great developer tools like Apollo and Detox meet, this is what you get 👌🏼

Building Casual AR games with React Native

Viro is notable for being the best tool to use AR in React Native, it's been demo'd at React Amsterdam and Chain React this past year, and everyone is always super impressed by what it can do, and how straightforward it is to use. This article is a great tutorial on how to build an AR Tetris game using Viro. Super cool stuff!

How to integrate maps in React Native using react-native-maps

It's been said and done many times over: integrating react-native-maps to your codebase isn't as straightforward as it seems. Here's a thorough tutorial detailing the issues you might encounter in the process, and how to solve them.

Open Source

react-native-docker - Docker image to develop and build React Native application

react-native-dropdown-autocomplete - Autocomplete input with dropdown modal component for React Native. Useful for pages with multiple autocompletes.

bs-react-navigation - A fast, declarative ReasonML navigation for React Native, based on React Navigation

react-native-typing-animation - 💬 A typing animation for your React Native chat app based on simple trigonometry to create better loaders.

Latest Jobs

React Native Developer @ Creatella

We are an ambitious and enthusiastic Venture Builder, empowering visionary entrepreneurs to build the best startups in FinTech, EdTech, HealthTech etc, around the globe. Born in Singapore, with European and Japanese roots and a highly diverse team spanning 20 countries, we aim to become the largest tech startups builder in the bustling South East Asia.

Design

Why most redesigns fail

Very well written article on infamous redesigns at some of the companies we all know, why some worked and why most didn't. Being in the middle of a redesign at my current job, I found his advice to be very valuable! Make sure to share this with your team.

Videos

React Native School

Spencer Carli recently announced React Native School, a set of tutorials on how to implement common features using React Native. There's only one tutorial in there so far, but let me tell you, the quality is there 👌🏼Everything we've come to expect from Spencer, and more! Looking forward to the next tutorials.

Comment

Hey folks!

I'm currently in Morocco visiting my family while working remotely, it feels good to escape the cold for a little while ☀️

I've read some pretty amazing blog posts these past couple of weeks, so this issue is full of solid, super interesting reads, I hope you're ready for it!

Enjoy! 👌🏼

PS: Interested in contributing to React Native? Just go to your command line and run npx good-first-issue react-native. You're welcome ;)

Engineering

Dan Abramov started a blog

A couple of weeks ago, Dan Abramov (who is pretty much React's Jesus) started a blog series about React. In that short period of time, he's already written 5 amazing blog posts, going in depth about some things that React does under the hood, explaining how and why they were done this way. If you've been itching to get a deeper understanding of React, head on over there and start reading, you won't regret it!

The articles so far:

React Native at Traveloka

Albert Darmawan, a Software Engineer at Traveloka, wrote a great blog post series about why and how their team chose to start using React Native. It goes in depth about their processes, the tools they use, how they use them. It's really a great read, don't miss it!

Debugging a Non Reproducible Crash

You know those Android crashes that are incredibly hard to debug, especially because no one in your QA team can reproduce them? Alexandra Moureaux had one of those recently using React Native, and somehow managed to pull through and fix it! Great story about how he went about investigating the crash and eventually tracking it down and fixing it.

Business

Inside the failure of a startup

We often hear about how most startups will and do fail. In this article, an entrepreneur who went through the ups and downs of being a startup founder details his journey and the lessons he learned along the way. Great read overall!