News
How we improved app performance and code quality by upgrading React Navigation
How Opendoor improved app performance and code quality by upgrading React Navigation. Thanks for submitting this, Tyler.
medium.com
Announcing React Native 0.66
React Native 0.66 has been released and it includes the following highlights:
- Handle taps on views outside parent bounds on Android
- New Bluetooth Permissions on Android
- Better Support for Apple Silicon, Xcode 13, and iOS 15
- Hermes 0.9.0
- Nightly and “Commitly” Releases
Also, be sure to catch the React Native Team AUA on Oct 14.
Plus - they're hiring engineers right now.
reactnative.dev
Expo & React Native at Payright
In this two part series, one developer shares their success with Expo - and specifically dives a bit more into their newer offerings such as EAS. Part two is here.
expo.dev
Libraries & Tools
Notifee - now free and open source
Big announcement from Invertase that they've decided to open source their Notifee notifications library. This one has always looked quite neat - will be interesting to see how the community reacts.
invertase.io
Introducing React Native Whirlwind
A modern approach to styling React Native applications - a new framework derived from react-native-tailwindcss.
gitconnected.com
Sponsored Link
React Native Jobs
Job listings especially tailored for React Native developers. Updated daily. Submit your listing today!
reactnativejobs.com
Tutorials
How to implement over the air updates with expo-updates in React Native
Great tutorial from the folks at Infinite Red sharing how to be successful using expo-updates for your OTA needs!
infinite.red
Developing my first mobile app to ~70k users
A very thorough account of one dev's journey through app development to gaining a meaningful userbase.
medium.com
A Keyboard Avoiding View for React Native in 2021
A copy-past solution that claims to resolve some of the frusterations many face using KeyboardAvoidingView
medium.com
Why We Should Use Pressable In React Native
One dev's attempts to demystify the new Pressable component and why you should replace your Touchable components with it.
plainenglish.io
Open Source
coinjar/react-native-wagmi-charts: A sweet & simple chart library for React Native that will make us feel like We're All Gonna Make It.
mrousavy/react-native-jsi-contacts: A contacts library for React Native using JSI
gorhom/react-navigation-scrollable-modal: This is a POC to replicate the native interaction behavior of iOS modal presentation with React Navigation.
akinncar/rn-mirror-lists: 🪞 Mirror scroll lists for React Native
ivanmoskalev/react-native-compressed-jsbundle: Ship React Native .jsbundles compressed by Brotli algorithm.
nomi9995/react-native-component-splitter: VS Code Extension allows splitting React Native Component into Sub-Component
mmazzarolo/react-native-monorepo-tools: Tools and utils to support a React Native monorepo built with Yarn Workspaces
ospfranco/react-native-bump-version: Small script I use to bump my react-native releases (yarn bump)
ngnclht1102/rn-cached-image: A react native cached, animated, and auto chooses the best-resolution image for the current screen.
intergalacticspacehighway/react-native-responsive-query: Create responsive styles that use media query on react native web and Dimensions API on react native.
duongdev/phosphor-react-native: A flexible icon family for React Native
flipkart-incubator/babel-plugin-pseudolocalize-react-native: Babel plugin to transform React Native Text nodes with a custom language map for Pseudo-localization
viet97/react-native-smooth-blink-view: A simple smooth blink view for react-native.
kanzitelli/rn-bounceable: 🏀 Native bounceable effect for any React Native component. Built with Reanimated 2. Compatible with Expo.