News

Expo SDK 39 is now available
Expo SDK 39 dropped this week with support for iOS 14, React Native 0.63, and React Native for Web 0.13! Also includes some cool stuff like interactive notifications and screen capture listening.
Lessons from training teams to use React Native
Harry Tormey, Engineering Manager at Coinbase, writes this one about the lessons learned from developing a React Native internal training program. If you want some more insight about what Coinbase engineers are trained on - or you're looking to do the same for your team - this would be a start.
React Native at Tableau 3 Years in
As a follow up to last issue's deep dive into Tableau's app performance, Aaron returns with another article walking through the last three years of React Native development at Tableau and the learnings you can take away from their experience.
Deep Linking in React Native
Software Mansion is hosting another free webinar next Thursday, October 1st. This time, they'll be doing a deep dive into deep linking and offering up some deep insight.
GasBuddy Entertains React Native
In this post, Max Metral, CTO of GasBuddy, walks you through their teams decision to explore React Native as a replacement for their current stack and the findings they discovered along the way.
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Tutorials

Reanimated 2 Events — building interactive user interfaces with Reanimated 2
Software Mansion continues their series of posts showing off the power of Reanimated 2 and how you can best harness it. In the newest one, my favorite yet, they'll walk through gesture events and how to utilize them in building an interactive UI.
5 Ways to Improve Your React Native Styling Workflow
The folks over at Shopify have compiled this handy list of 5 tips to improve your overall workflow when styling your application. Some real good stuff in here that's been battle-tested.
How I reduced my react-native (v0.63)app size from 63mb to 8.3mb (~87%)!
Nice little build tricks that one Android developer tested out which shrunk their app size 87%!
Open Source
rainbow-me/react-native-animated-charts: Set of components and helpers for building complex and beautifully animated charts
Voyzz/react-native-swiper-hooks: ✨A powerful Swiper hooks component for React Native
arnnis/react-native-fast-toast: A Toast component for react-native, supports Android, IOS, Web, Windows
eneskarpuz/react-native-drag-text-editor: React Native Drag Text Editor for photo editing / manipulation cases.
Voyzz/react-native-animated-carousel: 🦄 A wonderful animated carsouel hooks component for React-Native
plrdev/react-native-flipper-apollo-devtools
tj-mc/react-native-version-setter: Update your app version with a single command.
ahiho/react-native-attributed-text: It's easy to style the nested text in React Native.
qwertydevelopment/aniuta: The simplest state manager for Expo and React Native
WrathChaos/react-native-single-select: Customizable & Easy to Use Single Select Library for React Native
charpeni/react-native-is-catalyst: Tells if the react native app is running on Catalyst
cawfree/react-native-split-styles: 💅 Split StyleSheet keys into dedicated objects to help ease the routing of styles for nested components.
cawfree/react-native-unibubbles: An animated floating header component. You probably don't need it. 😜
meienberger/react-native-picasso: This NOT yet another components library
WrathChaos/react-native-multiple-select: Customizable & Animated, Easy to Use Multiple Select Library for React Native
agencyenterprise/react-native-health: A React Native package to interact with Apple HealthKit
cawfree/react-native-webview-modal: ⚛️ A WebView <Modal /> component for React Native, where the source content is pre-loaded for speed 🏁. (iOS/Android/Web/Expo)
razorRun/react-native-vertical-slider-smartlife: A vertical Slider for React Native written entirely in javascript.
osamaq/react-native-template: A minimal template with architecture and boilerplate to let you focus on writing features right away.
Videos
What to re(watch) from React Native Europe 2020
In case you missed it, React Native Europe 2020 has come and gone! But thankfully, everything was recorded and you can catch up on the sessions at your own convenience.