🍃 Ready for Fall 🍂 September 11th 2017

Hello

We've been feeling inspired as the seasons change and as a result we have an open source component with a tutorial to share with you this week. Be sure to check out react-native-async-image-animated and the tutorial on creating your own on our blog. 🚀

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Open Source

react-native-bundle-visualizer

See which packages are increasing your bundle size with this project.
react-native-swipeview

Swipe view component for React Native.
react-native-awesome-alerts

Custom alert view component, lot of customization options.
react-native-map-clustering

Map clustering component to be used with react-native-maps.

Around the Web

How We Built Our React Native App

Great deep dive on the development of Housing Engineering's React Native app from Siddharth Jain.
Typing Higher-order Components in Recompose With Flow

Learn how to type higher order components with Flow with this great post from Ivan Starkov.
Testing React Native + Apollo Apps

For those of you using GraphQL through Apollo like us, check out this write-up from React Native Training on getting your coverage numbers up!
React Native Basics

Spencer Carli has put this great free course together on React Native basics.

React Native

React 0.48

React Native 0.48 was released last week, the full release notes are available here. Some highlights:

RCTDeviceEventEmitter warnings are now fatal, AdSupportIOS has been removed
Delay support for Animated.spring
React.createClass has been replaced with create-react-class
transform speed improved by 8.5%

React Native Monthly #3

React Native Monthly took place for the third time last week with Callstack, Expo, Facebook, Microsoft, and Shoutem attending. The full meeting notes are available here but here are some cool items:

Expo has added support for installing npm packages in Snack
Microsoft has revealed that the new Skype app is built on React Native 😮

Frameworks

react-native-payments

React Native Payments released version 0.3.1 this past week with support for Android Pay. 💰

Augmented Reality

We've been getting our feet wet with ARKit and I'm amazed at how easy it is to get up and running. Since we're tinkering, you'll be seeing more AR articles in our newsletter and I encourage you to give ARKit a shot!

ARKit by Example

This awesome series from Mark Dawson helped me get started really fast with ARKit and I encourage you to check it out!
ARCore

Following in Apple's footsteps 😬, Google announced ARCore this week. Can't wait to see if a common bridge can be made between ARKit and ARCore through React Native!
FaceRecognition-in-ARKit

Open sourced ARKit app with a trained model for facial recognition.

Podcasts

React Native Filesystem feat Ben Hseih

Another great episode from React Native Radio this past week on the React Native filesystem.
Progression, Curiosity, and Burnout with Dan Abramov

Interesting episode on Tyler McGinnis' podcast this week where he talks shop and burnout with Dan Abramov.

Tools

Mono-repo or multi-repo? Why choose one, when you can have both?

Cool new tool here meta, being introduced by Patrick Scott, on how to use meta to create a distributed source control repository.

Redux

Redux isn’t slow, you’re just doing it wrong

Another great article from Julian Krispel on improving the performance of your Redux implementations. ⚡️
Redux, Firebase and the Saga in between

Learn how to handle asynchronous side effects in this article from Omer Levy.