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Hey Readers!
This issue brings a bunch of cool modules and, as always, some neat articles, podcasts, and exciting announcements!
In conference news: It's going to be a great summer for React Native and two great React Native conferences are filling up fast! Chain React in July React Native EU in September
Be sure to get your tickets now so you don't miss the fun!
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Executive Editor, Frank von Hoven at Infinite Red
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Airbnb Acquires Deco Software
Deco IDE goes open source as AirBnb acquires Deco Software, which had developed an integrated development environment (IDE) to build React Native apps, specifically with the aim of developers working more closely with designers on building native mobile apps for iOS and Android more easily. Prior to this, it was a partner of Airbnb in its own React Native work.
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Prettier - The Beauty and The Beast
Prettier is a command line tool that auto-formats your Javascript code. It allows some options to modify your code in a way closer to the way you like and plays with pre-commit hooks and your favorite editor. Here is an overview for making your React Native code...Prettier.
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Awesome Sponsors of the Newsletter
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Updates from facebook/react-native
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Release v0.44.0 - April
Highlights:
- Introduce DeviceInfo as a new native module
- Remove Navigator recommendation
- Use checkPropTypes instead of directly calling PropTypes
- Refactor Chrome Debugger JS
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Moving react-native-packager Into a New Repository
Next week Facebook is planning to split react-native-packager off of React Native to address a couple of long-standing issues in a smaller codebase that is easier to contribute to and easier to maintain:
- Make it easier to configure react-native-packager
- Symlink support
- Ability to use custom transformations and languages
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LearnReduxTogether
This tutorial series explores Redux and React and shows how to make a simple to-do list.
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Zeplin on Twitter
“Zeplin now generates React Native code snippets on iOS and Android projects - from layers, colors and text styles!”
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Highlights from the community
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freactal
Clean and robust state management for React and React-like libs.
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react-native-masonry
A component to render a masonry-ish layout for images with support for dynamic columns, progressive image loading, device rotation, and on-press handlers.
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Friends of the Newsletter
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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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