"A few weeks ago, Reactiflux reached 7,500 members on Slack. Shortly after, Slack decided we were too big and disabled invites....."

".... We reached out to Slack several times, but their decision was firm. Our large community caused performance issues. Slack wants to focus on building a great product for teams, not necessarily large open communities."

Discord is working great so far, the web app is made in React and the iOS app is React Native, so it seems like a natural move for us! Come join in!

"An in-depth look into React Native's core" by @tadeuzagallo, probably the man most familiar with how the iOS React Native bridge works because he built a lot of it. If you want more posts like this from Tadeu then ping him on Twitter (also @tadeuzagallo) with hashtag #mais-postagens-por-favor or something.

If you've ever been on github.com/facebook/react-native you know who James (@ide) is. What you don't know is that he has put a lot of thought into his ExNavigator library and built it around real-world needs that we've run into while building a fairly complicated app.

I strongly urge you to read this article and give ExNavigator a try in your own app!

Let James know what you think on Twitter, where is handle is actually @JI because some A-class weirdo already has @ide (seriously, check @ide out on Twitter, I don't even know what to think).

An interactive guide through GraphQL! I haven't gone through it yet but I have to soon because I recently made a total fool of myself while doing a workshop on React Native -- I tried to demonstrate GraphQL through the swapi and couldn't even write a single valid query. Go me!

Reindex, as I mentioned last week, is a nice hosted GraphQL server which also has a useful walkthrough to get you started with GraphQL/Relay. Sign up for the beta to try it out.

Tiffany from Udemy reached out to me to offer free access to some of the newsletter readers to their React Web Apps course: "Master the fundamentals of React as you develop applications supported by Flux, React Router, Gulp, and Browserify."

If you're still new to React, check it out! Or just pass it along to a friend who isn't drinking the kool-aid yet. The coupon code is: Brent

Infamous rick @garbles did a great presentation on his experimental library yolk which is like a RXJS version of React with a minimal API. Check his slides out for an intro to Rx concepts and Yolk.

Does it keep you up at night knowing that you wouldn't be able to make a modal in React Native if you had to? @browniefed has your sleepy-time pills in the form of a blogpost.

NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa blog post, blog post

A compilation of my knowledge and opinions on technology

"As we are working towards rolling out a fully-featured app, one thing that needed solved was how we should build the app for different environments. For example, how can we make (slightly different) development, staging, and production builds?"

Gerald Monaco (@devknoll), contributor to GraphQL in Relay is starting up a bi-weekly newsletter! Sign up to get it all up in your inbox, much like this one.

Not long after v0.12.0, v0.13.0-rc has been released! @ide wrote up some fantastic release notes so be sure to give them a perusal. I wanted to pick a few of my favourite changes but there are too many so just click through.

The "Good First Task" tag is used by team members to indicate that an issue is actionable and that the fix or feature is wanted.

This is a great place to look when you want to find something to work on to help out with React Native.

I'll try to highlight at least one important "Good first task" in each of the coming newsletters!

This is the first highlighted "Good first task" - in short, what I think everyone would like is to have different version of the docs for every tagged release of React Native, and make it possible for the user to switch between them.

"Corrected computation of RCText element height with padding (padding was counted twice)."

If you have noticed issues with applying padding to Text, this should fix that!

This Android-only component is built on top of the RecyclerView, to try to get better performance out of ListView. Give it a try in your Android app and let @kmagiera know how if you run into any issues.

"Big release 🔥: Android, polylines and polygons!"

"Our guide to developing Android apps on Linux with React Native, based on our initial experience with the framework."

"universal webgl app that compiles for web and native mobile" #snowflakes #winteriscoming

Initialize a ClojureScript-powered React Native project and boot it without even using Xcode! Check out cljsrn.org for more info

Currently only available for Android, but it seems like a very promising way to reuse a bunch of existing code from the Cordova ecosystem! Here's a blog post with more information.

In summary, once it's set up all you need to do is:

var cordova = require('react-native-cordova-plugin');
cordova.device.getInfo(/* your callback here */);.

"While developing with React Native we wanted to have the same or at least a similar environment, so the goal was to have one command to build and deploy the application to test devices. This blog post is a detailed explanation of how to set up such a deployment environment for your project (and propably mine too, as I will definitely have to reread this post to remember next time)."

Do you like places but dislike typing? Well I have some great news for you then! FaridSafi has put together a wrapper around the Google Places autocomplete API, check it out!

I love these folks. They make rnplay.org possible and in doing so support the React Native community in a big way. They are also allowing us to use their simulators within the React Native docs! I am not paid to advertise for them, I'm happy to advocate for products that I believe in (see: this newsletter about React Native) - so check them out if you have any need for an in-browser simulator for iOS or Android! Go and upload an app, the first 100 minutes of simulator use are free!

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