"After just one year in the open source community, React Native has changed the way developers build on every major platform."

Everyone who reads this newsletter should check out this great recap by @mkonicek. React Native as a project and as a community has come a long way in this last year and surely its best times are still to come :)

Martin Bigio, aka Dan Abramov (jk they are totally different human beings) was the main dude behind implementing hot reloading for React Native. In this blog post, the inaugural post in the "official" React Native blog, he explains how it works. So sit down and be prepared to read it a couple of times, you'll be better off for it.

Most of you have probably already heard the news, but it has to be said again here: a third major platform is now available for React Native! Apps built for the Universal Windows Platform can target Windows 10 desktop, mobile, Xbox, and even HoloLens (the augmented reality headset with a devkit available for $3,000). Some incredible work by folks at Microsoft to get this done in ~3 months. Currently it's still a fork, but the plan is to, sooner rather than later, merge it into upstream. You can check the repo out, and the UWP version of the F8 app, at github.com/ReactWindows.

Mobile, wearable, in-vehicle infotainment (is that actually a word? oh my..), Tizen is the open source "OS of Everything" from Samsung. No code is available yet but they have publicly committed to bringing React Native to the platform!

"A description of the conceptual model of React without implementation burden."

"We implemented several performance optimizations over the past year to make React Native twice as fast."

"@leeb @Vjeux have you looked at NativeScript? If so, any lessons to learn and adopt? Their strength is 100% API coverage IMHO"

"Based on our native sdk, React Native FBSDK provides core Facebook features like Login, Sharing, App Analytics and Graph API. Besides the existing support for React Native iOS, the sdk now supports both platforms via a unified Javascript component." - Wendy Deng

"With Curbit you can find treasures around you, and share stuff on the curb." - it's like craigslist, but for free stuff, and you don't have to awkwardly talk to anybody. What better use of the internet and technology than to get stuff and avoid human contact? In all seriousness though it's a nice app and love the idea, from @deanmcpherson of Townske.

"[At the end of March] we launched the Android Tasker app written in React Native... I'm going to write here about the experience we had throughout the development of the app and provide some insights about the challenges we faced in comparison to iOS."

"A community React conference August 25 - 26 2016 in Salt Lake City, UT" -- I had a great time there last year, Salt Lake City is full of friendly people, and in late August there are also friendly React people. Organized by everyone's favorite beard, Matt Zabriskie, and internet comedian and React Conf speaker alumnus Jamison Dance. What could possibly go wrong?

I hope you have your ticket already! Otherwise there will be a livestream available. Worst case just come to Paris, live stream from your Airbnb and meet us at a bar afterwards.

"This is a series of tutorials designed to introduce React Native and its Open Source ecosystem in plain English, written alongside the building of the F8 2016 app for Android and iOS." - fantastic documentation and exemplary (har har) app!

"A simple walkthrough of how to avoid the keyboard in your React Native project." I really admire the header graphic used for this post, bravo.

You've done it again, Infinite Red folks, what a beautiful graphic.

All it takes a little bit of configuration in Xcode.

I know you like shiny things, Elixir is a shiny new language and Phoenix is a shiny new framework for that language. Try it out with React Native, try not to go blind!

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. You probably already knew that but some of you didn't and now you learned something.

"Add ability to configure the app that should open when starting debugging" -- useful for IDEs such as Visual Studio Code to step in for Chrome as the React Native debugger. See @axemclion's blog post about building a custom React Native debugger...... but only if this is something you're into.

The React Native Playground team landed the first version of this on the alert docs months ago, and now all components that have examples in UIExplorer have embedded simulators in the docs!

"WindowedListView is designed for memory efficient scrolling of huge/infinite lists of variable height rows. It works by measuring row heights with onLayout and caching the results, then unmounting rows that scroll offscreen, replacing them with an equivalent offset in the spacer view. Care is taken to render a constant number of rows, and to only render one new row per tick to improve framerate and app responsiveness. WLV is also compatible with <Incremental> used within the rows themselves." via @sahrens of course

"This adds support for delete view animations in LayoutAnimation for iOS. It supports the same properties as the create animation (alpha, scale)." -- this would be a very welcome feature, hoping it lands soon so @janicduplessis can move ahead with the Android implementation as well :) @janicduplessis has been killing it in the past few months, if you know him in person you should give him a high-five or buy him a juice or something!

"Properly dimensioned touch targets are critical for high-quality apps, and now there is an easy to way visualize the touch targets in any React Native app.

Different types of touchables have different colors associated with them, so you can get a sense of consistency. <Text> that uses the onPress handler directly will be colored magenta. If you see a touch target that is too small, fire up the Inspector and quickly see exactly which component needs tweaking.

If anyone wants to volunteer to write up some official docs for the website, a PR would be much appreciated!" via @sahrens

Pull the project and give it a shot, there is just one guy working on it right now and he has done an incredible job. Why not pitch $5 or $10 a month into his Patreon? I did! And look at me, I can brag about it now. Feels good.

"A react native component that renders HTML as native views. Incredibly useful for rendering user inputted text from wysiwyg editors"

@axemclion put this one together to demonstrate react-native-cordova-plugin

"A React Native ListView component with rows that swipe open and closed"

Now known as "react-native-svg" on npm as I have handed the npm package over to @magicismight because his package is much better than the former "react-native-svg" -- now "react-native-svgkit" ever was.

"react-native-svg is built to provide a SVG interface to react native on both iOS and Android" -- it is built on top of ReactNativeART, very cool!

"Control, monitor, and instrument your React Native apps from the comfort of your TTY."

"Simple shimmering effect for any view in React Native" -- built on top of Facebook's shimmer library. Currently react-native-shimmer only runs on iOS but shimmer is also available on Android so why not submit a patch?

"React-Native clone of the Facebook Basketball game" - you can check out on exponent at http://exp.host/@brentvatne/Basketball or clone the repo and build it yourself. It's pretty fun, my high score is just 7 though :(

"A small demonstration app showing how to use Redux to manage navigation state in a React Native (>0.21) application using NavigationExperimental"

"Build and deploy to AppHub.io in one fell swoop."

"Your best friend when working with the latest and greatest Contacts Framework in iOS 9+ in React Native."

Maybe you've seen @necolas' lightning talk from React Conf and are wondering hey, I wonder how that react-native-web thing has been coming along? Go check it out and pitch in if this is something that you're interested in!

With Exponent you can create a new React Native project in one click and deploy it with a second click, making it available to anyone else who has the Exponent app (available on the App Store and Play Store). On Android, each of the apps opens in a new activity in the multi-tasker and can be saved to the home screen, like any other app. Over the next few months we will be rolling out other exciting features like dead-simple push notifications and support for popular native modules.

Not only do they provide simulators for React Native Playground but now also throughout the React Native docs! They have supported the community since very early on. 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!