Open Source
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We've recently started using this tool in place of
react-native-git-upgradeto upgrade our React Native dependencies and it works great! This really helps if you have a lot of native dependencies in your app. From Nicolas Cuillery. empresas-que-usam-react-no-brasil
Directory of companies that use React and/or React Native in Brazil. 🇧🇷
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Demo project of how to use react-native-arkit.
react-native-place-autocomplete-example
Example of how to use Google Places API autocompletion in React Native.
Around the Web
Up and Running with Universal Components
Great addition to this series on Major League Soccer's path to universal components in React Native from Kurtis Kemple.
Our React Native GL library is in alpha
Mapbox began supporting an experimental React Native component this week and you can get all the details here. 🗺
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Get your next project started fast with GeekyAnt's cool new tool which generates boilerplates for React Native projects including most common dependencies. From Sanket Sahu.
Electrode Native: The Platform For Integrating React Native Into Your Apps
Alex Grigoryan announces Walmart Lab's latest platform Electrode Native which aims to reduce the difficulty for developers who want to build and reuse React Native components across multiple apps.
Exploring Animation And Interaction Techniques With WebGL (A Case Study)
Awesome post and demo from Karim Maaloul on WebGL interaction and animation techniques.
React Native
React Native Monthly #4
Somehow missed the React Native Monthly meeting last week but here are some highlights. The full meeting notes are available here.
- GeekyAnts announced their React Native design tool BuilderX at React Europe and launched React Native Seed, boilerplates for your next React Native project.
- Facebook is actively working on improvements to
<Text>and<TextInput>components on Android. - Microsoft released code signing for CodePush. Full details are available here.
Augmented Reality
Introducing Expo AR: Three.js on ARKit
Great follow up article on Expo's inclusion of an AR framework in their latest release from Nikhilesh Sigatapu.
Realtime Reflections with ARKit
Incredible demo from John Austin. 👏🏻
React
React 16
React 16 was released this week and there's a lot of exciting updates that should improve our workflows and the performance of our React Native apps. The full notes are available here.
Tools
Enzyme
Enzyme 3 shipped this week with React 16 support. Check out the migration notes here on how to make the switch.
Sponsorship
Have an awesome platform or service that's built for React Native developers? We'd love to showcase you in our React Native Newsletter! Check our Sponsorship page for more info.
React 16 was released this week with a host of other frameworks having updates as a result. We'll be taking a look at one of those in this issue but I would check your dependencies for updates. If you had concerns about being on a beta build of React in React Native now may be the time to upgrade!
Additionally Facebook continues to evaluate their products and their licenses as GraphQL was relicensed under MIT this week. React Native still hasn't been evaluated but we hope to see some news here in the coming week.
Have a question you want answered in our React Native newsletter? Drop us a line [email protected] and we'll feature it in our next issue. ✌🏻
Wyatt | React Native Coach