News
React Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify
Shopify announces they're putting all of their eggs in the React Native basket and building all new applications going forward on the platform. Some welcoming news for the community - check out their deep dive on why they made this decision.
shopify.com
React Navigation 5.0 - A new way to navigate
Exactly two years after the publish of the first stable React Navigation release, the team officially ships version 5. This release looks to be the largest change so far, offering component based configuration, new hooks, a new theming API, and integration with devtools!
reactnavigation.org
Libraries & Tools
Yarn 1 vs Yarn 2 vs NPM
You may have heard that the announcement of Yarn 2 has been met with some criticism - especially for React Native devs. The folks at Infinite Red did a deep dive on whether they want to consider Yarn 2, move back to npm, or stick with Yarn 1.
infinite.red
Sponsored Link
React Native Jobs
Job listings especially tailored for React Native developers. Updated daily.
reactnativejobs.com
Tutorials
Building a Mobile Game Using React Native
I've come across react-native-game-engine before - but rarely have seen much of what people have done with it. This quick walkthrough shows how one dev built a game and shipped it off to the stores.
dev.to
Optimizing the react-native development process with Bitbucket and bitrise.io
Alexander has blogged about their development process with some automation steps. This process helped them to increase speed and quality or their workflow and is worth a read! Thanks for the submission, Alexander.
medium.com
Open Source
New getting started with React Native docs!
Rachel Nabors made some big contributions to the introductory React Native docs recently and we're loving it! Speaking of - if you want to get in on the action, she's running an update drive and looking for contributors.
dev.to
react-native-hooks-persist: React Native hooks persist with async storage
react-native-actions-sheet: A cross platform ActionSheet with a flexible API, native performance, and zero dependency code for React Native
React-Native-Awesome-Loading: Loading indicator Ui set for React Native
react-native-confetti: React Native component to show confetti
react-native-background-shapes: Beautiful background shapes for React Native based on Flex
react-native-x-carousel: A cross platform React Native carousel component
rn-eventsource: An EventSource implementation built on top of React Native's low-level Networking API
Videos
React Native at Shopify
Even more from the Shopify folks! Here is a recording of 4 different talks done at their San Francisco office last week.
youtube.com
Around the Web
Rendering a iOS notification with React Native
A tease from the team building Notifee showing the possibility of integrating rich content within a notification. Very cool stuff!
twitter.com
React Native moving full steam ahead at Shopify and Microsoft!
React Native has been having a big couple weeks in the news recently. With the announcement from Shopify (see below) and Microsoft shipping every copy of Windows 10 with the framework - they are continuing to invest heavily. Which is great news - especially since it's possible to run faster than native!
On the other side of that coin, there was a little bit of flak from outside the community as it was revealed that the much talked-about app from the Iowa caucus was built on React Native. If you didn't pay too much attention to that one, here's a good thread on how that all happened. The truth here is that it has nothing to do with the technology chosen, but rather a faulty process.
Michael Lefkowitz