Issue 78 March 16th 2021

News

Announcing React Native 0.64 with Hermes on iOS

The big news of the week right here. Hermes on iOS, Inline Requires enabled by default, React 17, and more. Check it out!

Libraries & Tools

Introducing React Native Accessibility Engine

Great stuff here - an engine capable of traversing a component tree to make accessibility-related checks for you!

Reanimated 2.0 stable release is out!

Reanimated 2.0 stable has shipped. When you're done checking that out - head over to this awesome star field animated tutorial.

Tutorials

How I improved my React Native app 50x faster

Some great tips in this article - a few I hadn't seen before!

Zero to App Store in 30 Days

Loved this writeup on how Course Hero integrated RN into their pre-existing native iOS application.

React Native: How To Build Bidirectional Infinite Scroll

A really beautiful and well-written tutorial for building bidirectional scroll.

Tips & tricks for testing GraphQL-powered components

A blog post that goes over common pitfalls you might face when unit testing your components backed by a GraphQL store / API. Thanks for the submission!

Open Source

cuvent/react-native-vision-camera: 📸 The Camera library that sees the vision.

mrousavy/react-native-mmkv: ⚡️ An extremely fast key/value storage library for React Native. ~30x faster than AsyncStorage!

cawfree/react-native-wormhole: ⚛️ 🌌 Inter-dimensional Portals for React Native. 👽 🖖

smallcasetech/react-native-simple-biometrics: simple interface to verify user authenticity

craftzdog/react-native-quick-base64: A fast base64 module for React Native

swushi/react-native-input-outline

klarna-incubator/platform-colors: Generate platform native colors for iOS, Android & Web

callstack/react-native-webpack-toolkit: A Webpack-based toolkit to build your React Native application with full support of Webpack ecosystem.

cawfree/react-native-localhost: ⚛️ 🏡 Returns the local address of your actual development machine.

ariona/rn-tajweed-verse: React Native component for parsing Quran Tajweed Verses into color coded text.

hungga1711/react-native-dnd-board: A drag and drop Kanban board for React Native.

juandl/react-native-credit-card-input-plus: Easy, cross-platform credit-card input for your React Native Project! Start accepting payment 💰 in your app today!

WrathChaos/react-native-permission-service: Easy to use permission service which is all handled by itself for both iOS and Android on React Native

Cnilton/react-native-rating-component: Rating component with lots of customization props.

spokestack/react-native-spokestack: Spokestack: give your React Native app a voice interface!

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Diversity & Inclusion

The GAAD Pledge - Improving React Native Accessibility

Update from the team regarding their pledge towards accessibility improvements.