Real Life React Native returns! Host Mazen Chami sits down with David Leuliette to explore the intricacies of building the Retail Shake Scanner app using React Native. They discuss the app's unique features, the challenges during development, and share  insights for developers navigating similar projects.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Links

1. Learn Code the Hard Way
2. Expo to App Store Checklist
3. React Native Bottom Sheet
4. UseCamera2API
5. Expo Camera (Next)
6. Git Plugin
7. React Native Bootcamp

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• David - @flexbox

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Quotes you can share on X!

• "I chose to learn React the hard way by learning React Native. It was reverse engineering for me." - @flexbox_ on @reactnativerdio
   
• "Learning React Native made me a better React developer. TypeScript is (also) good nowadays. I can't work without it." - @flexbox_ on @reactnativerdio
   
• "Use Storybook for debugging visually. It allows you to quickly debug with many different scenarios." - @flexbox_ on @reactnativerdio

Jamon, Robin, and Mazen react to the 2023 State of React Native Results by Software Mansion! Follow along as they break down all of the results and (spoiler alert) RNR is still your favorite podcast.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• Charlie Cheever - @ccheever
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

Join Robin and Mazen as they navigate React Native 0.73's key updates! Topics cover enhanced debugging capabilities, Android and Kotlin template updates, and significant architectural updates for a more efficient development environment.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

We’re back with another React Native news episode! From the new Expo SDK 50 Beta, to RN 0.73 and Reactotron 3, this episode has all the goods.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

1. Jamon's epic pool-building thread 
2. https://shift.infinite.red/announcing-reactotron-3-0-934b5a221bda
3. https://github.com/anisurrahman072/React-Native-Advanced-Guide
4. https://expo.dev/changelog/2023/12-12-sdk-50-beta
5. https://evanbacon.dev/blog/expo-2024?x

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

React Native Rewind (2023 Edition)! Join hosts Jamon, Robin, and Mazen for a special end-of-year review. They’ll take a look at all of the highs and lows from the year in React Native Radio—from unforgettable guests to the new tools and practices in the React Native world.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In today's episode, Robin and Jamon talk with Simon Reggiani about his COVID side project that jumped to the top of the app store game charts and its eventual acquisition. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Simon - @sregg

In today's episode, Jamon, Robin, and Mazen revisit a day in the life of a React Native developer. RNR 192 was our first day in the life episode, and today, we're revisiting the topic. From tech updates to new lessons learned, today's episode is full of good stuff. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

1. RNR 192 A Day in the Life of a React Native Developer 
2. RNR 196: The Art of Code Review 
3. RNR 209: Favorite Third-Party RN Libraries 

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen -  @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

In this episode of Real Life React Native, we chat with Benedikt Müller about his latest project, Share My Stack. He discusses his experiences with React Native and offers valuable insights gained from his journey.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

1. https://sharemystack.com/

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• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Benedikt - @bndkt
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren

We explore Bun, the latest JS runtime, as it relates to React Native developers. We discuss its features, performance, and how it compares to Node.js. Join us on this bunbelievable journey into the future of JavaScript runtimes.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

1. RNR Episode 276 - Announcing Ignite v9 with Frank Calise 
2. https://bun.sh/
3. Bun 1.0 Announcement
4. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/123
5. https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1398914373066706946

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen -  @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Join Robin and Mazen as they delve into React Native app security. They discuss safe API key storage, secure data handling, SSL pinning, and additional pointers to help you keep your app safe. Check it out today!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

1. Official RN docs
2. https://jscrambler.com/
3. Jscrambler’s article
4. Halak Vachhani’s article
5. Jamon’s twitter thread
6. RNR-239 Shrinking your app with ProGuard w/ Jame Hamilton
7. https://www.youtube.com/@JamonsCodeQuests
8. Jail Monkey (Gant’s library) 

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen -  @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Mazen interviews Matthew Wood from Teamworks about their real-world experience building and shipping a React Native app.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen -  @mazenchami
• TeamWorks - @Teamworks

In this episode, Robin and Mazen are joined by Doug Lowder and Gabriel Donadel from Expo, They discuss the recent updates and launches by Expo, including Rollouts for EAS Update, SSO, Expo Orbit, and more!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

1. https://expo.dev/launch-party
2. https://supabase.com/blog/launch-week
3. https://expo.canny.io/
4. ChainReactApp2023 implemented Expo Updates in PR#183
5. https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Doug - @[email protected]
• Gabriel - @donadeldev
• Mazen -  @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Robin and Mazen are joined by the one and only Frank Calise. You've heard him referenced many times in other episodes, and now you get to meet him ear to ear. They discuss the exciting new changes in the upcoming Ignite v9 release, which Frank is spearheading.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

1. https://github.com/infinitered/ignite/pull/2446
2. RNR270 with Lorenzo and Riccardo
3. Expo v49
4. Config plugins to make this work for Android 12, s/o to Kate at IR for her help on this!
5. Removal of react-native-bootsplash 
6. Jamon's Code Quests Youtube Channel

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Frank - @frankcalise
• Mazen -  @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Well, it's the time you've all been waiting for! This epic crossover episode was recorded on location at the React Native EU Conference. Jamon joins Callstack's React Native Show for a special episode that you wont want to miss! 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

• https://www.react-native.eu/ 
• Check out CallStack's Youtube for videos of the conference talks.
• Callstack!

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Callstack - @callstackio

Want the full lowdown on the React Native EU 2023? We've got you covered! In this episode Jamon and Mark Rickert dive into the talks, and highlights of the conference. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Episode Notes

• https://www.react-native.eu/ 
• Marks talk at Chain React
• Check out CallStack's Youtube for videos of the conference talks. 
• Callstack!

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mark -  @markrickert

In today's React Native Radio episode, Jamon and Robin dive into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and what it looks like in the workflow of a React Native developer.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Etsy deploy on day 1
2. EAS React Native Radio episode

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Sanket Sahu of GeekyAnts joins us for the third time to talk about his new full featured UI library, Gluestack. In the process, he and Jamon reminisce for far too long.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RNR 197
2. https://style.gluestack.io/
3. https://framework.gluestack.io/
4. https://ui.gluestack.io/
5. https://bolt.gluestack.io/

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen -  @mazenchami
• Sanket - @sanketsahu

In a new series, Jamon interviews Nick Alekhine from NTWRK about real-world experience building and shipping a React Native e-commerce app.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Nick's talk at Chain React

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren

We've had this episode in the hopper for a bit, but we're excited to finally release it! A Flutter developer – Luke Pighetti – joins Jamon and Robin to give an outside perspective on React Native and what it does well – and not so well.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Luke - @luke_pighetti

In this episode, Robin and Mazen, chat with RN core team members Lorenzo Sciandra from Microsoft, and Riccardo Cipolleschi from Meta, about the fresh new RN version 0.72. If you're interested in what you should be looking for in this latest RN release, then this episode is exactly what you're looking for. 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. React Native 0.72 Blog Post 
2. Release Changelog
3. Alex Hunt’s talk 
4. RFC: React Native as a monorepo
5. Lorenzo’s Really Cool Graph :) 
6. Lorenzo’s talk
7. Riccardo’s talk from Chain React 
8. https://rn-versions.github.io/

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Lorenzo - @Kelset
• Riccardo - @CipolleschiR

Jamon and Mazen sit down with Marc Rousavy to talk about the latest version of his popular React Native library, React Native VisionCamera.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. V3 Main Issue
2. V3 stats
3. React Native Vision Camera 

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Marc - @mrousavy

In this episode, Robin and Mazen go on an epic adventure walking through the updates that we get with Expo SDK 48.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Chiara Mooney joins Jamon and Mazen to talk all about how React Native for Windows is helping Microsoft build Microsoft Office.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RNR237—React Native on Desktop
2. React Native for Windows 
3. Official tutorials
4. Twitter thread by MSFT React Native
5. Adding Jest Snapshot Testing to React Native Windows Apps
6. RN Gallery

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Chiara - https://github.com/chiaramooney

In this episode Robin is joined again by Gant Laborde and Justin Huskey! We just finished up a week of fun at Chain React, and today they'll be recapping the conference and all the wonderful goings-on that happened.  

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Gant - @gantlaborde
• Justin - @justinhuskey

Chain React is back!! Take a peek behind the curtain in this Chain React-themed episode. Robin and Mazen are joined by Gant Laborde and Justin Huskey, the organizers of the premiere U.S. React Native conference!  We dive into everything you've ever wanted to know about the Chain React conference: how it started, who it's for, and why now is the perfect time to bring it back. 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1.  Buy Tickets to Chain React

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Gant - @gantlaborde
• Justin - @justinhuskey

Former RNR host Josh Justice along with his coworker Jason Grosz come on to talk about their experience using Detox on a client project.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1.  RNR 262: Maestro: The App-solute Solution for Mobile UI Testing
2. RNR 189 - Reliable Detox with Rotem
3. RNR 187 - TypeScript!
4. Check out Chain React Conf!

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren 
• Josh -  https://codingitwrong.com/
• Jason - @Agent_0028

In this episode, Jamon, Robin, and Mazen are joined by Colin Gray, Principle Engineer at Shopify. We'll be diving into Shopify's journey with React Native, examining the challenges they faced, and also the successes that have come along with adopting React Native. 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1.  Migrating Shopify's Largest Mobile App to React Native
2. RNR 210 - Exploring Shopify’s Restyle with Haris Mahmood
3. RNR 245 - Shopify's FlashList with Talha Naqvi
4. RN Live with Joel Arvidsson
5. React Native Skia with Christian Falch

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren 
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Colin - @colinta

In this episode of React Native Radio, Jamon, Robin, and Mazen are joined by special guest Dima Zaytsev from mobile.dev. Today we're talking about Maestro - a mobile UI testing framework that helps to simplify the testing process. Tune in as they explore the world of mobile UI testing and share how Maestro can improve your workflow. 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RNR 189 - Reliable Detox With Rotem
2. Mobile.dev website
3. Announcing Maestro Studio
4. Original Maestro announcement

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren 
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Mobile.dev - @mobile__dev

In today's episode, Robin and Mazen discuss EAS (Expo Application Services), and how it's revolutionized RN tooling. You'll hear much mention of a mysterious Frank in this episode. That's Frank Calise, one of our developers here at IR and resident Expo Wizard. 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Frank - @frankcalise
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Robin and Jamon unpack the latest changes in React Native 0.71, including TypeScript by default, developer experience improvements, and flexbox gap support!

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RN 0.71 blog post
2. RNR 187 - Typescript
3. RNR 251 - React Native 0.70
4. Our episode's sponsor: Chain React

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren 
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Today the hosts interview Nate Wienert about Tamagui, the one stop shop UI kit for React Native. 

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Tamagui
2. Tamagui 1.0 announcement
3. JSXStyle (alternative)
4. Dripsy (alternative)
5. Sponsor Nate’s OSS efforts
6. Stitches
7. Starter kit

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Nate - @natebirdman
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Jamon, Robin, Mazen, and ChatGPT discuss whether AI coding assistants will take our jobs in the future – and how to deal with it as developers.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Jamon’s Copilot article 
2. Gant’s AI book 

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Meta’s core React Native team responded to the latest discussion about what could be improved in React Native. Robin, Mazen, and Jamon go over their response!

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Original thread
2. Meta’s Response
3. RNR 196

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, we talk with Evan Bacon from Expo! Evan joins Robin, Mazen, and Jamon to discuss the newly released Expo Router, the first file-based router for mobile apps. Learn how you can build, maintain, and scale projects using Expo Router.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Expo Router RFC
2. Former Twitter CEO Jack’s response to Evan

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Evan - @Baconbrix
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

RTK Query is a hot new data fetching & caching library that integrates with Redux Toolkit. The creator, Lenz Weber-Tronic (coolest name ever), came on the podcast to talk about what makes it special.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RTK Query docs
2. React Query
3. Lenz's Egghead Course on RTK Query

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Lenz - @phry

Today Robin and Jamon go over the Github discussion about what could be improved in React Native. Jamon also recounts an embarrassing story about jet lag.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/discussions/528
2. https://reactnative.directory/
3. Gant’s talk
4. RNR 253

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
  
   

Another episode of "We React to News" is upon us! Today, Mazen and Robin are talking about all sorts of juicy topics like Expo 47, Solito, and Meta adopting Kotlin as primary language for Android development, just to name a few. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Expo SDK 47 beta is now available | by Brent Vatne | Oct, 2022 | Exposition
2. Introduction | Expo Router
3. Expo Router | Solito
4. RFC: File System-Based Native Routing with Expo and React Native | by Evan Bacon | Sep, 2022
5. RNR 224 - React Native Web on Next.js with Fernando Rojo
6. From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin - Engineering at Meta
7. Create React Native Library 0.25
8. Alexandre Moureaux New Architecture Benchmarking on Twitter
9. React Native types moving out of DefinitelyTyped
   1. https://twitter.com/kelset/status/1572994139649720322
   2. https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/discussions/490#discussioncomment-3693520

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Ionic’s Josh Thomas joins the podcast to talk about their new React Native Portals feature, allowing for highly performant microfrontends in React Native apps. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Portals
2. Portals docs

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Josh - @jthoms1
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In this episode, Mazen and Robin review RN 0.70 to see what's new, what's broken, and everything in between. Mazen also continues his quest to get Robin hooked on sports-ball. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RNR 238 - Accessibility in React Native with Lizzi Lindboe
2. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2022/09/05/version-070
3. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2022/07/08/hermes-as-the-default
4. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
5. https://reactnative.dev/docs/next/the-new-architecture/landing-page

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Regardless if you're a junior developer, or a seasoned code wizard, you're going to love this episode! Today, the hosts walk through React Native Firebase and it's amazing capabilities.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

This week Jamon and Mazen are joined again by Mark Erikson to discuss RTK vs MST  and some of the benefits and downsides they each have.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Gist with interesting early discussions on GH
2. Reactiflux
3. RTK docs 
4. Modern Redux
5. RTK 1.0
6. Redux Essentials 

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Mark - @acemarke

Ignite, the popular React Native boilerplate and CLI, has a new version out, code-named “Maverick”, and it has dozens of improvements! The hosts explore what’s new in this latest version of Ignite.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Maverick Announcement

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

In this episode the crew, joined by our friend Hodeem Miller, revisits some older common complaints about React Native to see if those critiques are still true today. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Hodeem’s article
2. Reanimated 2
3. FlashList episode
4. ProGuard episode

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Hodeem -  @HMCodes

This week: We're joined by Naoya Makino from the popular marketplace app, Mercari. He joins us to talk about what it was like to rebuild the company's native mobile app in React Native – all in 18 months!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Why Mercari decided to rewrite their iOS & Android apps from scratch — in React Native
2. Mercari's React Native Evolution 
3. Android Developer Fundamentals - Google India YouTube

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Naoya -  @naoyamakino

Talha Naqvi from Shopify comes on React Native Radio to talk about the hot new FlashList and why it’s a drop-in replacement for FlatList in most cases.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. FlashList
2. Recycler List View 
3. https://twitter.com/naqvitalha/status/1547224093962883072?cxt=HHwWgMCqybWH7PgqAAAA

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Talha - @naqvitalha

We have two guests on the podcast this week! Max Metral from GasBuddy, and our very own Mark Rickert, who has joined us a few times before. In this episode the crew discusses the exciting adventure of rebuilding the popular GasBuddy app in React Native.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. GasBuddy Entertains React Native
2. We are shipping React Native GasBuddy

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mark -  @markrickert
• Max - @djmaxm
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

It’s been a while since we’ve done a “We React to News”! In this episode, we react to Shopify’s FlashList, Callstack’s Reassure, and more.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. FlashList
2. FlashList integration with Reanimated
3. Callstack Reassure
4. React-native-keyboard-controller
5. RN Parallax Travel Card By Lucas Lima 
6. Zephyr
7. react-native-owl
8. Rob Walker RN Live
9. React Native Perspective Correction Image View  By Leon Kim

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

In this episode, Mazen and Robin dive into the latest release of React Native - Version 69!! They dive into what's changed and whats new in this version, along with attempting to discuss sportsball.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2022/06/21/version-069
2. https://reactnative.dev/docs/new-architecture-intro
3. https://reactnativeradio.com/episodes/rnr-233-react-18-and-the-future-of-react-native
4. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/2d74de010b8ecc90e8b6b253ab01a98bb6c615ec/CHANGELOG.md

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Should you use Redux or MobX-State-Tree? Robin, Mazen, and Jamon do a breakdown of the various tradeoffs of these two popular state management libraries.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. https://www.loom.com/share/9e3afe0547824e42bada06191e891ae1
2. https://mobx-state-tree.js.org/intro/welcome
3. https://redux.js.org/introduction/getting-started
4. https://reactnativeradio.com/episodes/175-state-management-in-react-native-sLR6hN_v

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

We've got a new Expo SDK! In this episode Jamon, Robin and Mazen dig into whats new and exciting with Expo SDK 45.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. https://blog.expo.dev/expo-sdk-45-f4e332954a68
2. https://blog.expo.dev/a-peek-into-the-upcoming-sweet-expo-module-api-6de6b9aca492
3. https://docs.expo.dev/versions/v45.0.0/sdk/audio/#audiosample

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Tune in for this special announcement from Jamon and Robin! 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Our AWESOME Promo Video! 

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

In this episode, Jamon and Mazen, joined by James Hamilton, discuss how to make your Android APK file smaller using ProGuard.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Enabling ProGuard in React Native
2. Gradle used to come with ProGuard enabled
3. ProGuard vs r8
4. ProGuard vs DexGuard
5. ProGuard Playground

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• James - @jag_hamilton
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Lizzi Lindboe joins Robin, Mazen, and Jamon aka Barry White to talk about accessibility in React Native!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. React Native accessibility docs
2. AccessibilityInfo
3. When to use accessibility labels
4. Jen Luker's 2018 Chain React talk, "How to be a React Native A11y"
5. React Native Accessibility on Android tips
6. Building an accessible clock on iOS

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Lizzi - lindboe
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In this episode Robin and Mazen hold down the fort while Jamon is gone and talk about their experiences with using React Native for desktop apps.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Out-of-Tree Platforms · React Native
2. macOS getting started guide 
3. Get Started with Windows · React Native for Windows + macOS
4. How to Build a Desktop App with React Native for Windows | blog {callstack}
5. Supported Community Modules · React Native for Windows + macOS
6. Windows Native Modules
7. Choosing C++ or C#
8. Universal Windows Platform
9. React Native TVOS

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Jamon and Mazen are joined by Krzysztof Magiera, Director of engineering at Software Mansion to talk about all things Reanimated 2, and beyond. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Reanimated 2
2. Blog announcement
3. React Native Screens
4. App.js Conf in Krakow

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Krzysztof - @kzzzf
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In this episode, Jamon, Robin, and Mazen go through some of the differences in React Native 0.68. We also find out that somehow Robin managed to get "banned" from Twitter Communities. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Announcing React Native 0.68
2. Jamon's article on using the correct JDK for M1 Macs

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

In today's episode, Robin and Mazen talk about some common issues and errors you might encounter when building apps with react native and how to fix them.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RNR 180 and RNR 189
2. Josh’s talk at ReactATL
3. Newclear script

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Gant is back on the show! He joins Robin and Mazen to talk about what’s new in React 18, and how it ties back into React Native.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. React 18 blog post

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Gant - @GantLaborde
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Robin, Jon Major, and Jamon discuss Jamon’s recent article, “Flutter is better than React Native…in all the ways that don’t matter.”

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Jamon's blog post “Flutter is better than React Native…in all the ways that don’t matter"
2. Hacker News comments

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Ever used React DevTools Flamegraph? Flipper comes with an implementation of it and it’s super useful for finding slow-performing components. Listen to Robin, Jon Major, and Jamon discuss all things flamegraph.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

It's that time again! Jamon and Robin react to news. This episode includes plenty of laughs Jamon's most recent "mistake", along with the latest news in the world of React Native. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Jamon’s mistake
   1. Jamon's blog post about how Flutter is better than React Native...in all the ways that dont matter.
2. This Week in React
3. React Native 0.68 prerelease
4. Workgroup for the New React Native Architecture
5. TypeScript 4.6
6. react-native-screens Fabric
7. Flipper
8. Ignite 7.9
9. Glassmorphism

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Jamon, Robin, and Mazen talk with former RNR host, Josh Justice, about building an Expo App for Mobile and Web. There is also some spirited conversation about skiing. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Josh’s talk at ReactATL
2. Surely
3. Surely Github source
4. React Native Web
5. React Native Testing Library
6. React Navigation for Web

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Josh -  codingitwrong.com
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

In this episode, Robin, Mazen, and Jon hold down the fort while Jamon is on vacation. They discuss Wordle, and what’s new in React Native 0.67.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RN 0.67 blog post
2. Full change-log
3. Weird bug

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Microsoft is doing some amazing work on React Native tooling. Tommy and Adam join the program to talk about rnx-kit, a collection of React Native tools by Microsoft.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Aurochs
2. rnx-kit
3. Solidarity 

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Adam - @afoxman4
• Jamon: @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze
• Tommy - @lord_sherlock

Robin’s back! And Eve Porcello, author of Learning React and Learning GraphQL, joins us to talk GraphQL in React Native

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Learning React
2. Learning GraphQL
3. Apollo Studio
4. GraphiQL
5. Moon Highway
6. Howtographql.com 
7. Hasura
8. Apollo odyssey

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Eve - @eveporcello
• Jamon: @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

We get the band together — Todd, Gant, and Jamon, along with Mazen as co-host, to discuss our decision about Chain React 2022 and some intriguing alternatives.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Gant - @GantLaborde
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Todd - @twerth

In this episode, Mazen and Jon Major are joined by Fernando Rojo, Co-Founder and CTO at BeatGig, to discuss the ins and outs of working with React Native Web on Next.js.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. PATOS
2. BeatGig
3. Fernando's next.js Conf 2021  talk about React Native  + Next.js
   1. Resources
4. https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand
5. https://github.com/nandorojo/moti
6. https://github.com/nandorojo/dripsy

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Fernando - @FernandoTheRojo
• Jon Major -  @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In this episode, Mark Rickert joins the show again to talk with Jamon and Mazen about the differences between React.js and React Native.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. ReactJS vs React Native: A Comparative Analysis
2. RNR 188: Styling with Style

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• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mark -  @markrickert
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Meta engineering manager Kevin Gozali joins the show to talk about the React Native new architecture -- TurboModules, Fabric, codegen, and whether React Native developers need to go learn C++!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Blog post on Hermes being the default for RN

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• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Kevin - @fkgozali
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Mazen and Jon Major quiz Jamon on his new library, react-native-colo-loco, which is a library that lets you colocate your native components with your JSX/TSX components.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. React Native Colo Loco instructional video
2. Weird bug

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• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Jamon, Mazen, and Jon Major go over the latest news in the React Native world, including news from Expo, Native Base, and React Three Fiber!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Weird bug: 
   1. On-device onPress registers as onLongPress because the device and host computer clocks are off
   2. https://twitter.com/mcavaliere/status/1460634087236976641?s=21
   3. https://github.com/react-navigation/react-navigation/issues/7883#issuecomment-629345782
2. NativeBase v3
3. React 3 Fiber
4. Faster bundler (Expo Exotic)
5. Jamon unboxing 

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In this episode, Jamon, Mazen, and Jon Major talk about what’s new with React Native 0.66, and…Sweatcoin?

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Full changelog
2. Picker (deprecated)
3. Check out this free app — It Pays to Walk 🚶

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In the second of this two-part series, Mark Rickert joins the podcast to talk about performance-tuning your React Native apps.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. useMemo & useCallback
2. Use React Memo Wisely
3. Don’t overuse React useCallback
4. requestAnimationFrame
5. Redux Performance tips
6. InteractionManager
7. TurboModules and Fabric
8. React State Museum

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mark -  @markrickert
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In the first of this two-part series, Mark Rickert joins the podcast to talk about performance-tuning your React Native apps.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

• React Native performance docs
• React Native Flatlist performance tips
• Flipper
• Reactotron
• Why Did You Render
• Expo-optimize
• Reactotron’s benchmark

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mark -  @markrickert

Jamon and Mazen interview Peter Piekarczyk, cofounder of Draftbit, about building a startup on React Native, his Y Combinator experience, and what’s next for Draftbit. Plus Peter drops his number one piece of advice for startup founders!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

• Draftbit
• ReScript 
• Expo
• Y Combinator

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Peter -  @peterpme

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

• Tiger King Season 2
• React Native vs. Native blog post by Gant Laborde
• Jamon’s React Native Live broadcast
  • Diff
• Orta’s RNEU 2019 talk
• Orta’s RNR 187 show

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

• Jamon’s React Native Live broadcast:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Repo
• React Native vs. Native blog post by Gant Laborde
• Create React Native Module
• React Native Module Init
• React Native Builder Bob
• Setting up your machine for React Native
• Installing React Native on Windows
• RNR 178

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Jamon, Jon Major, Mazen, and Harris talk about the latest React Native news, including some recent React Native announcements and Expo news.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

• Blog post for preparing your app for iOS 15 and Android 12
• Blog post on React Natives many platform vision.
• Mo Gorhom's blog post on React Native Bottom Sheet v4
• Expo's announcement about async bundle loading

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Harris - @nomadicspoon
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

React Native EU 2021 was fully online and we watched every talk! Jamon, Robin, and Mazen talk about what piqued their interest and what you should know about this React Native focused conference. Also: Jamon shows off his sound bite editing skill….

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Coinbase’s Brent Walter and Jacob Thornton join the show today to talk about Coinbase’s switch from native to React Native, and discuss how important it is to get buy-in. Great show to listen to if you’re considering this switch too!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Blogpost announcing Coinbase’s successful transition to React Native.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Brent -  Linkedin
• Jacob - @fat
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Jamon, Jon Major, and Mazen interview Haris Mahmood about Shopify’s “Restyle” styling system. We talk about why Restyle is TypeScript-first and how it helps scale their styles at Shopify.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Restyle
2. Polaris Token
3. Styled System
4. Shop

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Haris - @harisaurus
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
5. Mazen - @mazenchami

Robin, Jamon, Jon Major, and new guest-host Mazen Chami introduce their favorite third-party React Native libraries, including GiftedChat, RN Popover, and more! (In fact, Robin had so many we had to cut some out.)

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Awesome React Native 
2. React Native Gifted Chat
3. React Native Screens
4. Victory Native
5. React Native Calendar Strip

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Mazen - @mazenchami
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, Jamon, Robin, and Jon highlight some of the new additions that you can expect to see in the newly released React Native v0.65. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RootTag & RootTagContext

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

In our second “We React to News”, Robin and Jamon discuss Expo 42, Github Copilot, Detox/GenyMotion, and TypeScript 4.4.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. 3D Game Programming for Kids
2. Fan mail
3. RNR 191
4. Expo SDK 42
5. GenyMotion/Detox blog post
   1. Twitter post from GenyMotion
   2. Twitter post from Detox

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Robin - @robin_heinze

Harris rejoins the team and we talk to the Infinite Red designers about the challenges and aspects of designing for React Native apps.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Sketch
2. A great blog post from InVision on design systems

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Infinite Red Designers: Twitter, Dribbble, Instagram
3. Harris - @nomadicspoon
4. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
5. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
6. Robin - @robin_heinze

Robin, Jon Major, and Jamon talk with Rich Evans about Reactotron, which is a free desktop app for inspecting and debugging React Native apps.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Reactotron website
2. Reactotron Github
3. Flipper
4. Darin Wilson’s talk about Reactotron at Chain React 2018
5. Better React Native Debugging with Reactotron in Flipper
6. Fullstack Labs article

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Rich -  @rmevans9
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

Jamon and Jon Major enlist Mark Rickert to help in Robin’s absence. They talk about open source, dependencies, and … skydiving?

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Weird bug 
2. ProMotion
3. Mark releasing app while skydiving 
4. Patch-Package

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Mark -  @markrickert

The React Native Radio team interviews Devin Abbott about his website, React Native Express, which is a great (and free) way to get started learning React Native!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. React Native Express - we're sponsoring it!
2. Lona
3. SourceNote
4. Deco
5. RNR 178 with Rachel Nabors

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Devin - @dvnabbott
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

What’s it like to go from React.js to React Native development? Jon Major Condon joins Jamon and Robin to talk about the transition from React for web to React for native.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RNR 182: React Native on the Web with Simon Sturmer 
2. Boiling React Down to a Few Lines of jQuery
3. Tweet about React Native Stripe Beta Release

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

Robin, Jamon, and new show co-host Jon Major Condon do a brand-new show format called “We React to News”. We talk about five of the biggest stories from the React Native community, including a lot of Expo news.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Viral Tiktok meme
2. Expo CLI
3. Coinbase going all-in on RN and their Animated Tabbar in React Native
4. Stripe’s React Native SDK
5. CodeCademy Learning React Native course
6. Ignite 7.0: Making Ignite a multi-platform React Native boilerplate

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

For the 200th episode, Robin and Jamon are joined by the team behind React Native Radio, Todd, Missy, Justin, and Jed, and talk about how an episode makes it from their mouths to … your ears?

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Izotope RX8
2. Audition

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jed - @InfiniteJed
4. Justin - @justinhuskey
5. Missy - @MissyWarren_
6. Robin - @robin_heinze
7. Todd - @twerth

Jamon's back! In this episode, Jamon and Robin discuss strategies that they've learned over the years for upgrading React Native. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. "What do you dislike about React Native?" Github Issue
2. 2019 RN open-source update blog post
3. React Native Versions
4. Upgrading React Native
5. Upgrading Ignite

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, Gant, Robin, and Harris discuss machine learning and its growing place in the React Native space. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Hot dog or not, blog post, examples of source code, and app store link
2. Nick Bostrom's book Super Intelligence
3. Gant’s Book!
4. Stanford learning AI course
5. AI Quickstart Guide
6. Infinite Red Academy Machine Learning Course

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Gant - @GantLaborde
3. Harris -  @nomadicspoon
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, guest host Gant steps in for Jamon while he relaxes in Hawaii. Gant and Robin are joined by Sanket Sanhu, the CEO and founder of Geeky Ants. They discuss Geeky Ants' open-source framework, Native Base - how it came to be, and where it's at now. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Native Base v3 Alpha

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Gant - @GantLaborde
3. Robin - @robin_heinze
4. Sanket -  @sanketsahu

Robin and Jamon discuss the art of code review -- pairing, empathy, and projector reviews. An NBA trade almost derails the conversation.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Patricia’s Tweet
2. Justin’s Tweet

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Robin - @robin_heinze

Harris, Robin, and Jamon look at the newly released React Native 0.64 and go through all the changes, including Hermes on iOS.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. RN 0.64 Release Blog
2. Hermes
3. JavaScript engine Wikipedia definition
4. MDN Proxy 
5. Proxy vs Reflect

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Harris -  @nomadicspoon
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, we are joined by Bekah Hawrot Weigel, founder of Virtual Coffee. We talk about the challenges that junior developers face in the industry as well as React Native specifically.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Flatiron
2. Epicodus
3. Concordia Bootcamp
4. Virtual Coffee

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Bekah - @BekahHW
3. Harris -  @nomadicspoon
4. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

Flutter 2 was released recently, and Robin and Jamon discuss what’s different from Flutter 1, how it compares to React Native, and give their opinions on Flutter and Dart in general.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Flutter 2 announcement thread
2. Twitter thread by Sebastien Lorber about Flutter 2 vs RN

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Robin - @robin_heinze

Whether you're new to React Native or a seasoned veteran, you'll love this episode! Today, Jamon and Robin talk about what a day in the life of a React Native developer looks like. They discuss tricks of the trade that they've learned along the way, and surprise surprise, Jamon somehow works in another tractor story. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Ignite
2. XScope

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Robin - @robin_heinze

Jamon and Robin, joined by new guest-host Bryan Stearns, interview Brent Vatne about the new EAS service from Expo!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Expo Blog about EAS Build 
2. Fastlane Gym
3. Expo docs

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Brent -  @notbrent
3. Bryan - @bryanstearns
4. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

Adhithi, Robin, and Jamon talk about getting your app through the App Store and Play Store review process and actually onto people’s phones. Plus, Jamon tells about the time he had to cross a river on a boat to deliver software.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Weird bug: https://github.com/react-native-community/rn-diff-purge
2. Expedited App Review:  https://developer.apple.com/contact/app-store/?topic=expedite
3. Fastlane: https://fastlane.tools/
4. IR Open Source repo: https://github.com/infinitered/open-source/blob/master/Continuous-Deployment-Setup-React-Native.md
5. Visual Studio App Center: https://appcenter.ms/
6. Expo over the air updates: https://docs.expo.io/workflow/publishing/
7. App Store Review Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
8. AppStoreReviewTimes: https://appreviewtimes.com/
9. Jarvis: https://app.jarvisdev.tools/

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Adhithi - @adhithiravi
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

Our special guest, Rotem Meidan, drops a ton of knowledge on how to make your Detox tests more reliable, including what the causes of Detox test flakiness are and how to solve them.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Detox: https://github.com/wix/Detox
2. Detox: Writing Stable Test Suites by Rotem Mizrachi-Meidan
3. Rotem’s talk at Chain React 2018
4. Rotem’s previous interview on RNR
5. Espresso: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/espresso
6. Earl Gray: https://github.com/google/EarlGrey/releases

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Harris -  @nomadicspoon
4. Rotem - @rotemmiz

The panel talks about styling React Native apps -- styling frameworks, pros and cons, TypeScript integration, and more. Plus we get to hear what happened to Adhithi’s pop filter!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Yoga: https://yogalayout.com/
2. Yoga Playground: https://yogalayout.com/playground/
3. RN Stylesheets: https://reactnative.dev/docs/stylesheet
4. RN Styles: https://reactnative.dev/docs/style
5. Getting Started with RN FlexboxLayout: https://programmingwithmosh.com/react-native/getting-started-with-react-native-flexbox-layout/
6. BuilderX: https://builderx.io/
7. FramerX: https://www.framer.com/

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Adhithi - @adhithiravi
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

Orta, an open source legend who has worked on CocoaPods, React Native, Flow, and many more popular libraries, joins us to talk about his work making TypeScript more accessible to people through documentation and community outreach.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. State of JS 2020: https://survey.stateofjs.com/survey/state-of-js/2020
2. TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/
3. TS handbook https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html
4. New website and logo: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-the-new-typescript-website/
5. Weird bug (UI Kitten ): https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Harris - @nomadicspoon
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Orta - @orta
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, the hosts discuss files and folders -- deep vs flat, colocated vs split up, screens vs containers, and much more. They also *mostly* successfully avoided the tabs vs spaces debate.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links: 

1. Ignite: https://github.com/infinitered/ignite
2. Ignite Andross: https://github.com/infinitered/ignite-andross
3. Invertase: https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase
4. Ryan Florence quote: https://twitter.com/mjackson/status/776155460172775424

Connect With Us! 

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Adhithi - @adhithiravi
3. Harris - @nomadicspoon
4. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, the hosts talk with Graham Mendick about his navigation library, which combines the best features of native navigation with React Native. We also talk about how it’s tough to get mindshare among developers these days for new libraries.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Navigation: https://github.com/grahammendick/navigation
2. Detox PR: https://github.com/grahammendick/navigation/pull/464
3. React Navigation: https://reactnavigation.org/
4. React Native Navigation: https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation
5. React Native Screens: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens
6. React Native Router Flux: https://github.com/aksonov/react-native-router-flux
7. React Router: https://reactrouter.com/
8. Jamon’s ProMotion library: https://github.com/infinitered/ProMotion

Connect With Us! 

1. Graham - @grahammendick
2. Harris - @nomadicspoon
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

Harris and Jamon talk about the newly released Ignite, code-named “Ignite Flame," the latest version of the most popular React Native project boilerplate. They discuss what it is, what changes in Flame, and what the motivation for the rewrite was.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Weird Bug
2. Ignite Flame Pull Request
3. Ignite
4. Announcement post

Connect With Us! 

• Harris -  @nomadicspoon
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren

The panel explores debugging: general debugging techniques, tools, and types of bugs you might encounter along the way. There might even be a Jamon tractor story or two..

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Check out this article from  Florian Marcu where he talks about how to use breakpoints for debugging a React Native project.
2. An awesome article from Louis Zawadzki about debugging performance issues in React Native.
3. Flipper is an awesome debugging platform for your React Native apps. Check it out here.

Connect With Us! 

• Adhithi - @adhithiravi
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Simon Sturmer (ex-Facebook, Google) joins the panel to talk about React Native Web. Why use RN on the web? What advantages and what pain points are there? And a bonus side rant about Android!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/blob/master/packages/docs/src/guides/accessibility.stories.mdx
2. React Native Router Flux: https://github.com/aksonov/react-native-router-flux
3. React Native Web: https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
4. HarmonyOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_OS

Connect With Us! 

• Harris - @nomadicspoon
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Simon - @sstur_

In this episode, the hosts interview Oluwatobi Shokunbi, an avid software engineer from Nigeria, and the founder/organizer of React Native Nigeria. We talk to him about his journey as a developer, the forming of React Native Nigeria, and the emergence of the Nigerian developer scene.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Check out React Native Nigeria on Twitter 
2. How To Startup A React Native Nigeria Community Near You.
3. Oluwatobi Shokunbi(just1and0) – Medium
4. https://github.com/just1and0/React-Native-Paystack-WebView
5. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/react-native-to-infinity-and-beyond-tickets-108692022766?ref=estw#
6. https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/comments/gly261/ar_copy_paste_using_react_native_expo/

Connect With Us! 

• Harris - @nomadicspoon
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Oluwatobi - @just1and0
• Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, the React Native Radio hosts discuss testing -- what testing strategies are popular, what frameworks they’ve used, and how TypeScript fits into it all.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RN testing overview
2. The Practical Test Pyramid
3. An awesome guide from Kent C Dodds on Testing JS
4. Carly Litchfield's Talk at Chain React about screenshot testing with Percy
5. Detox
6. Appium
7. Cypress
8. Selenium
9. Motion Juxtapose

Connect With Us! 

• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Harris - @brunostmann
• Adhithi - @adhithiravi

Janic Duplessis joins us to talk about the new iOS 14 feature, App Clips, and how he got them to work in React Native. We also quiz him on react-native-safe-area-context and running a custom version of React Native!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Article from Apple about app thinning
2. Janic’s PR: Use asset catalog for ios images https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/30129
3. react-native-safe-area-context
4. react-native-touchable-bounce
5. eslint-plugin-react-hooks
6. Building from source
7. Check out Janic's company, Th3rdwave!

Connect With Us!

• Janic - @janicduplessis
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Harris - @brunostmann
• Adhithi - @adhithiravi

Rachel Nabors works at Facebook on React and React Native documentation. We interview Rachel and get the scoop on what makes for great documentation.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Show Notes:

Helpful Links:

1. Check out the React Native and React Docs here and here!
2. Take a look at Docusaurus for managing your documentation.
3. Rachel’s tweet about adoption/scaling

Connect With Us!

• Rachel - @rachelnabors
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Harris - @brunostmann
• Adhithi - @adhithiravi

In today's episode, we explore the challenges of building cross-platform apps in React Native and look at the differences between the two main platforms, iOS and Android.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Show Notes:

Helpful Links:

1. Adhithi's article about the differences in building iOS and Android apps in React Native.
2. This week's weird bug
3. Learn more about Elevation, here!
4. Interested in learning more about Google Play Console pre-launch reports? Take a look at this!
5. Google Developers India — Android app walkthrough
6. Orta gave a wonderful talk about iOS build infrastructure, You can watch that here
7. Have some busted node modules that need fixing? Check out Patch Package!
8. Here's how the devs at Infinite Red setup Fastlane and Circle CI

Connect With The Hosts!

• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Harris - @brunostmann
• Adhithi - @adhithiravi

What are the final steps you should do before launching a new React Native app? Gant Laborde, co-owner & CIO of Infinite Red, joins the podcast to talk about his recent article about this topic.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Show Notes:

Helpful Links:

1. Gant's blog post: React Native Final Steps
2. Who Said It App
3. Chain React App
4. Red Shift blog post about Fastlane
5. Red Shift blog post about releasing React Native apps on the Google Play Store
6. babel-plugin-transform-remove-console
7. https://squoosh.app/

Want to get to know the new hosts of React Native Radio? Follow them on Twitter! 

• Harris Kalash - https://twitter.com/brunostmann
• Adhithi Ravichandran - https://twitter.com/AdhithiRavi
• Robin Heinze - https://twitter.com/robin_heinze
• Jamon Holmgren - https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren
• Gant Laborde - https://twitter.com/GantLaborde

Make sure to subscribe on any the major podcasting platforms (search for "React Native Radio"). And follow us on Twitter at our new handle, @reactnativerdio.

In the second episode since the big relaunch, the new hosts of React Native Radio tackle the question of state management in React Native. Redux, MobX-State-Tree, context and hooks -- we cover it all!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Show Notes:

If you missed it, read our blog post announcement about the React Native Radio relaunch in Red Shift: https://shift.infinite.red/relaunching-the-react-native-radio-podcast-716aa5f9310e

We're working on a transcript of this episode and all future episodes! Stay tuned for that.

Helpful Links:

• Gant's React State Museum (Github)
• Why Infinite Red Uses MobX-State-Tree Instead of Redux
• React Navigation Pull Request

Want to get to know the new hosts of React Native Radio? Follow them on Twitter! 

• Harris Kalash - https://twitter.com/brunostmann
• Adhithi Ravichandran - https://twitter.com/AdhithiRavi
• Robin Heinze - https://twitter.com/robin_heinze
• Jamon Holmgren - https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren

Make sure to subscribe on any the major podcasting platforms (search for "React Native Radio"). And follow us on Twitter at our new handle, @reactnativerdio.

React Native Radio is under new management! In today's episode, the new hosts talk about the relaunch of React Native Radio and the state of React Native.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Show Notes:

Read our blog post announcement in Red Shift: https://shift.infinite.red/relaunching-the-react-native-radio-podcast-716aa5f9310e

We're working on a transcript of this episode and all future episodes! Stay tuned for that.

Want to get to know the new hosts of React Native Radio? Follow them on Twitter! 

• Harris Kalash - https://twitter.com/brunostmann
• Adhithi Ravichandran - https://twitter.com/AdhithiRavi
• Robin Heinze - https://twitter.com/robin_heinze
• Jamon Holmgren - https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren

Make sure to subscribe on any the major podcasting platforms (search for "React Native Radio"). And follow us on Twitter at our new handle, @reactnativerdio.

React Native Remote Conf 2020

In this episode of React Native Radio, guest Steve P Young drops in to discuss how to spot an opportunity in the market, expectations about app earnings and how to promote your app and attract users to subscription services.

Panelist

• James Brenton

• Charles Max Wood

Guest

• Steve Young

Sponsors

• G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing

• CacheFly

Links

• iPS 291: App Store Subscriptions with Jacob Eiting

• App Masters YouTube

• App Masters

• Twitter Steve Young: @stevepyoung

Picks

Charles Max Wood:

• Devchat Conferences

James Brenton:

• Eye Of The Beholder

Steve Young:

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

Follow on Social Media:

• Twitter React Native Radio: @ReactNative_RNR

• Facebook React Native Radio

• Twitter James Brenton: @sternjobname

React Native Remote Conf 2020

In this episode of React Native Radio, guest Mike Grabowski joins us to talk about React Native optimization and discuss what life is like as a core contributor.

Panelist

• James Brenton

• Charles Max Wood

Guest

• Mike Grabowski

Sponsors

• G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing

• CacheFly

Links

• The Power of Interpolation - Mike Grabowski

• GitHub react-native-community/releases

• Twitter Mike Grabowski: @grabbou

Picks

James Brenton:

• I LIke To Make Stuff

Charles Max Wood:

• Warbreaker

• iPS 278: App Marketing Hacks with Steve Young

Mike Grabowski:

• RNEU 2020

• GitHub software-mansion/react-native-reanimated

Follow on Social Media:

• Twitter React Native Radio: @ReactNative_RNR

• Facebook React Native Radio

• Twitter James Brenton: @sternjobname

React Native Remote Conf 2020

July 29th to 31st - register now!

Yair Bar-On talks us through the test platform that his company, Test Fairy provides, and how it can integrate to make life easy for #ReactNative and mobile teams.

Panelist

• James Brenton

Guest

• Yair Bar-On

Sponsors

• G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• TestFairy

• Twitter Yair Bar-On: @yairba

• LinkedIn Yair Bar-On

Picks

Yair Bar-On:

• Validating Product Ideas

James Brenton:

• Le Creuset

Follow on Social Media:

• Twitter React Native Radio: @ReactNative_RNR

• Facebook React Native Radio

• Twitter James Brenton: @sternjobname

Michael Lefkowitz joins us to talk about the newsletter he runs React Native Now. We discuss how the newsletter started, the diverse and rich content subscribers can expect to find in the newsletter, and more.

Panelists

• James Brenton

• Tim Jung

Guest

• Michael Lefkowitz

Sponsors

• Appfigures | Promo code: RNR3030 gets you 30% off for the next 3 months

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• React Native Now

• Twitter Michael Lefkowitz: @lfkwtz

• GitHub Michael Lefkowitz

Picks

Tim Jung:

• Anti-racism resources for white people

• Duel Decks

James Brenton:

• Jackbox Games

Michael Lefkowitz:

• Cribbage With Grandpas

• They Live

Follow on Social Media:

• Twitter React Native Radio: @ReactNative_RNR

• Facebook React Native Radio

• Twitter James Brenton: @sternjobname

• Twitter Ricky Romero: @RomeroRickyio

• Twitter Tim Jung: @timjungdev

Julien Lavigne du Cadet discusses the app Covid Symptom Study. He details it's rapid development in a time of dire need. We learn about how the app went reached 1 million users in just 6 days and the challenges that came with it.

Panelists

• James Brenton

• Tim Jung

• Ricky Romero

Guest

• Julien Lavigne du Cadet

Sponsors

• G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing

• Appfigures | Promo code: RNR3030 gets you 30% off for the next 3 months

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Twitter: @julienlavigne

• From The Front

• LinkedIn: Julien Lavigne du Cadet

Picks

Tim Jung:

• What The Golf?

James Brenton:

• Foolproof Pan Pizza Recipe

Ricky Romero:

• Teamfight Tactics

Julien Lavigne du Cadet:

• The Bureau

Follow on Twitter:

• React Native Radio

• James Brenton

• Ricky Romero

• Tim Jung

The panel discusses using animations and micro-interactions in React Native apps. We cover how to build engaging user experiences that keep users coming back. Catalin also shares some of his favorite libraries, tips, and words of caution.

Panelists

• James Brenton

• Tim Jung

Guest

• Catalin Miron

Sponsors

• Appfigures | Promo code: RNR3030 gets you 30% off for the next 3 months

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Twitter: @mironcatalin

• Youtube Catalin Miron

Picks

James Brenton:

• Minecraft

Tim Jung:

• Starz

Catalin Miron:

• Sony a6400

• jobbbz

• Hasty Tips

Follow on Twitter:

• React Native Radio

• James Brenton

• Ricky Romero

• Tim Jung

Perttu walks us through the essential components for how to rapidly prototype React Native apps. We talk about building fast, delivering fast, and measuring everything.

Panelists

• James Brenton

• Tim Jung

• Ricky Romero

Guest

• Perttu Lähteenlahti

Sponsors

• G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing

• Appfigures | Promo code: RNR3030 gets you 30% off for the next 3 months

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Twitter: Perttu Lähteenlahti

• Perttu's Blog

• Nyxo

Picks

James Brenton:

• Rocksmith

Tim Jung:

• Slat the Spire

Ricky Romero:

• Calm

Perttu Lähteenlahti:

• Lost and Founder

Follow on Twitter:

• React Native Radio

• James Brenton

• Ricky Romero

• Tim Jung

Will Gant, author of upcoming book "Remote Work - A Complete Guide" sits down to talk about working from home. We cover the current covid situation, how to transition to remote work, and strategies to succeed at it.

Panelists

• Tim Jung

• Ricky Romero

Guest

• Will Gant

Sponsors

• Appfigures | Promo code: RNR3030 gets you 30% off for the next 3 months

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Twitter: Will Gant

• How Remote Work Could Change Your Life

• Complete Developer Podcast

Picks

Tim Jung:

• Counterpart

Ricky Romero:

• Purple Carrot

Will Gant:

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020

May 13th to 15th - register now!

Longtime React Native Radio's host Nader Dabit returns to talk about full stack development on the cloud. We get into the options such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Netlify, and Zeit. We also catch up on what Nader has been up to lately.

Panelists

• Tim Jung

• James Brenton

Guest

• Nader Dabit

Sponsors

• G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing

• Appfigures | Promo code: RNR3030 gets you 30% off for the next 3 months

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Twitter: Nader Dabit

• GitHub: Nader Dabit

• YouTube: Nader Dabit

Picks

Tim Jung:

• Devs

Nader Dabit:

• Begin.com

James Brenton:

• Things...

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020

May 13th to 15th - register now!

Farhan Thawar is the VP of engineering at Shopify. On this episode he gives us his perspective of how Shopify is using React Native across multiple projects. We pick his brain about topics such as core contributions, performance, native development comparisons, and tooling.

Panelists

• Tim Jung

• James Brenton

• Ricky Romero

Guest

• Farhan Thawar

Sponsors

• G2i | Enjoy the luxuries of freelancing

• CacheFly

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Twitter: James Brenton

• Twitter: Ricky Romero

• Twitter: Farhan Thawar

Picks

Tim Jung:

• Doom Eternal

• A Speed Run Intro to React Native for Front End Developers

James Brenton:

• Civilization 6

Ricky Romero: