News
Building LightOS with React Native
Really interesting stuff from the team building LightOS for the Light Phone 2, a minimalist cellphone. They walk through how the device works, why they chose React Native, and some of the challenges faced in development.
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"We just landed another 5% memory win in Hermes"
Hermes development continues to chug along, as the tech lead of the project shares an exciting status update.
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React Native Jobs
Job listings especially tailored for React Native developers. Updated daily.
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Tutorials
Create a root-level modal store in React Native
A tutorial I wrote this week about how we replaced (some) of our application's native Alert functionality with a root-level Modal that is backed by Redux, allowing it to be triggered from anywhere we need.
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How to use React Native Localize in React Native apps
It's 2020 - time to start thinking globally about your app if you aren't already. Aman wrote up a great tutorial on utilizing react-native-localize and i18n-js in your app.
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Open Source
netguru/sticky-parallax-header: a simple React Native library, enabling you to create a fully custom header for your iOS and Android apps
mmazzarolo/ordinary-puzzles-app: A mobile puzzle game built with React-Native
benevbright/react-native-toast-banner: An animating banner fully based on Javascript
shirakaba/react-native-web-browser-app: Not another wrapper around SFSafariViewController. A fully-featured, cross-platform web browser written in React Native.
safaiyeh/react-native-cookie-store: Cookie manager for react-native
usamamoinakhter/Neumorphism-ui: React Native components based on the concept of Neumorphism
Paraboly/react-native-input-bar: Fully customizable, beautifully designed Input Bar for React Native
Latest Jobs
Senior React Native Mobile Engineer | Bó
Bó, the digital bank designed to help people do money better, is looking for senior React Native software engineers to join their front end software engineering team based in central London. Bó is part of NatWest, so this is an exciting opportunity not to be missed! Learn more about the role and about Bó at wearebo.co.uk.
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Design
12 awesome resources for product and design
I love this thread by @JoshWComeau where he shares a dozen different resources that he has discovered over the years that will make your life a little easier.
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Videos
iPod Classic - “Can it be done in React Native?”
As usual, William dropped another good one where he attempts to recreate the scroll wheel of an iPod Classic with React Native!
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Around the Web
Working on the Call of Duty Companion App
A fun retrospective post from Tim, an engineer at Activision Blizzard, who works on the Call of Duty Companion App. Always cool to see what big companies are doing with React Native.
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Happy New Year!
First things first, React Native 0.62 is on the horizon - with the first RC shipping out late last month. No details on changes quite yet but it looks to be a big one.
Aside from that big news - welcome to 2020! I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and time off if you had it. For a bit of a retrospective on last year, here's a list of the top 5 most popular links from 2019:
- The React Handbook
- Announcing React Native 0.61 with Fast Refresh
- React Native UI Kitten 4: What’s New?
- React Native — Making your app fast again
- The New React Native Architecture Explained
Michael Lefkowitz