News
Announcing React Native 0.60
A huge update for React Native has been released. 0.60 brings improvements to accessibility, a refreshed default start screen, AndroidX support, more lean core removals, and plenty more. Head over to the official blog to learn more about these changes.
github.io
Libraries & Tools
React Native UI Kitten 4: What’s New?
I hadn't heard of this UI library until it was submitted to us, but based on the GitHub stars it's quite popular. V4 was released a few weeks back and it looks pretty slick.
bitsrc.io
Open Source
react-native-bootsplash - Show a bootsplash during app startup. Hide it when you are ready.
react-native-layout-animation-provider - A React Native <Provider/> for synchronizing your LayoutAnimations
react-native-swipe-image - A React Native library to swipe image on top, bottom, left, right like your favorite platforms
native-touchable - React Native Touchable with native look & feel
Let's React
Videos
Safari Tabs - “Can it be done in React Native?”
A very cool tutorial in which William Candillon where he builds the iconic opened tabs transition from Safari.
youtube.com
SMOOSHCAST: React Fiber Deep Dive
A fun video that will deep dive into the internals of React Fiber engine. This one guest stars Dan Abramov.
youtube.com
Engineering
How to create custom forms with validation and scroll to invalid logic in React Native (Part two: Scroll to invalid)
Part two of a tutorial series I've been working on was just published yesterday. In this part, you'll learn how to get a form fully setup with your own custom-rolled validation and logic that will automatically scroll your user's screen to the first invalid input.
dev.to
React Native: Native Components
An interesting read from the team at Flock. This blog walks through how they incorporated a native view for their map on both platforms in order to improve the overall performance of it.
flockcover.com
Creating an accelerometer-powered maze game in React Native
A cool tutorial that was submitted to us that utilizes your device's accelerometer to lead a ball through a maze. Definitely give a look if you've been wanting to play around with sensor data.
fritz.ai
Expo releases InAppPurchases API
For those of you out there using Expo, they have just released an API that enables you to accept payments for in-app products. Internally this relies on the Google Play Billing library on Android and the Storekit framework on iOS.
expo.io
React Native hits 0.60 and Chain React kicks off tomorrow
Hello all and welcome to the latest edition of Let's React.
The biggest recent news around here is the release of React Native 0.60, so be sure to see below for some more details on that.
Aside from that, the Chain React conference kicks off tomorrow in Portland, Oregon. Our own Kenza Iraki will be speaking at the conference on Thursday morning - so if you're in attendance, make sure not to miss that one! And for those of us who won't be in attendance, hopefully we'll be able to watch some talks on YouTube once it ends :)
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Michael Lefkowitz