Issue 55 November 26th 2019

Hello

The react-native-doctor is in! And, how Walmart doubled their velocity with RN.

This week we've got the introduction of React Native's Doctor tool, as well as some great posts from big development teams like Walmart and Wix.

That's all from me, remember to submit links and Happy Thanksgiving ya'll. 🦃

News

Meet Doctor, a new React Native command

The official React Native blog is here covering the launch of react-native-doctor, a new command to help you out with getting started, troubleshooting and automatically fixing errors with your development environment.

A new beginning for React Native at WalmartLabs Online Grocery

WalmartLabs shares some insights over migrating their Walmart Grocery App to a ~90% React Native codebase over the past two years. Some of their wins include: doubling engineering velocity, OTA updates, and shared business logic.

Tutorials

React Native Animations — Zero to Hero

A great write-up by the folks at Wix about the lessons they've learned in React Native animation over the past four years. From using the native driver, performance considerations, and recommendations on libraries - this will certainly teach you something new.

Differences between React and React Native that newcomers should know about

A non-exhaustive list of the key differences between working with classic React on the web and React Native on mobile. These are certainly some concepts I often remind others when they consider spinning up react-native init for the first time.

Open Source

react-native-stylehooks - Responsive React Native [Web] styles made simple

expo-disneyplus - disney+ clone with expo / react native

netflix-clone - A Netflix app clone made with React Native

react-native-quick-scroll - React Native scroll bar component for fast scrolling

react-native-create-guid - Minimal library to create Guids in React Native. It uses the native implementations to generate one and send it over to JS.

react-native-circular-multiple-slider - React Native component for circular multiple slider and pie chart

react-native-scale-alert - A React Native alert component

react-native-animated-spinkit - A pure JavaScript port of SpinKit for React Native.

Latest Jobs

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