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Hey readers! You might have noticed some slight changes and a new feel to the newsletter...you can read more about here.
A bunch of new things happened in the React Native world since the last issue including new articles, node modules, example apps, 2 new version updates, a podcast & video, and a couple of other goodies...so enjoy #37!
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0.38
Highlights
- Show Warning for Background Remote Debuggers
- Adding Jest preset so that people can configure Jest using react-native as preset
- Use yarn when available
- Fallback to JS Animation if native animated is not present
- Upgrade to lodash@^4.16.6, results in faster packager and smaller npm install size
- Documentation updates, including better user experience, more detailed explanations and more
- Integration test stability: add delay before starting TimersTest
- Modernize AppContainer and add rootTag in the child context
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0.39
Highlights
- TouchableOpacity: Respond instantly to first touch
- Add the configuration option to the run-android command
- Add extractOffset to Animated
- Add a new Navigator SceneConfig swipeFromLeft
- Add aspectRatio style property
- Only skip updating computed flex basis within the same generation
- Rewrite 'react-native init' and 'react-native upgrade' without using Yeoman in preparation for templates support
- Make Modal pass rootTag to AppContainer
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React Native Radio Episode 46: Ken Wheeler of Formidable Labs
Nader Dabit and Peter Piekarczyk talk with Ken Wheeler about a range of topics like: Formidable Labs and what they do, VR, his opinion of the Twitter app in Native, how to stay motivated, and Ken opines about where he sees React Native going in the next few years.
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Highlights from the community - Modules
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rn-sprite
A component for creating animations from spritesheets.
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react-native-cacheable-image
CacheableImage understands its state. Once you define a source the first time, its state has been set. You can create another component with the same source and it will load the same cached file without having to fetch from a remote URI.
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Friends of the Newsletter
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Exponent
Exponent lets web developers build truly native apps that work across both iOS and Android by writing them once in just JavaScript. It's free and open source.
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Appetize.io
Stream iOS & Android Native Apps in the Browser. For embedding apps in websites, development, client demos, testing and more.
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