Issue 70 September 3rd 2020

News

RNEU2020 Virtual Edition

The React Native EU virtual conference kicked off this morning and it's all FREE. Pop on today and tomorrow to hear 24 different speakers talking about your favorite piece of tech.

React Native Performance Learnings

In this article, the folks over at Tableau share some insights from three years of React Native development and what they've learned regarding how to first understand the basics of performance - and then how to improve upon it.

Libraries & Tools

Babylon React Native: Bringing 3D and XR to React Native Applications

Learn more about using the real time 3D engine, Babylon.js, in your apps

Tutorials

Understanding React Native Architecture

The more you know about what makes React Native tick, the more you'll be able to resolve issues in your apps by yourself. In this article, Jun dives deep on the architecture and its definitely worth a read.

React Native: Working with Notification Badges

A very deep dive into app notification badges that should cover everything you ever wanted to know (and probably more than that).

Testing our React Native app with Appium and DocShots

Learn how the team at Docplanner automated their E2E to not only identify visual changes across a variety of devices, but also to ensure the design team had easy access to see how everything they created ended up displaying on the actual device.

GitHub Codespaces: Developing and testing React Native apps just with Expo and Codespaces

A quick tutorial showing off the new GitHub Codespaces product and how one developer utilized it to build React Native apps on the cloud-based IDE

Open Source

moxystudio/react-native-with-moxy: MOXY's boilerplate to accelerate the setup of new React Native mobile apps

wolfgio/react-native-android-sms-verification: React native package that implements Android SMS Verification API

WrathChaos/react-native-internet-connection-alert

gorhom/react-native-bottom-sheet: A performant interactive bottom sheet with fully configurable options 🚀

IssamElNass/React-Native-Samsung-Smart-TV-Template: A template for others to use when developing an app for Samsung Smart Tv's that uses Tizen

MinaSamir11/react-native-in-app-review: The Google Play In-App Review API lets you prompt users to submit Play Store ratings and reviews without the inconvenience of leaving your app or game.

remigallego/react-native-use-sound: 🔊 A React Native hook for playing sounds 🔊

acerezci/react-native-outline-input

Diversity & Inclusion

Beyond The Binary: How Software Engineer Sara Vieira Founded A Global Community Of Queer Coders

A short article highlighting Sara Vieira, the founder of QueerJS, and the story behind it.