Issue 70

Issue #70

Hello Readers!

As you can tell, we now have over 10,000 subscribers! A big thank you to all of you who have been a subscriber since the early days, and to those of you who are new subscribers - welcome! It's been a great ride so far and we look forward to future issues and more news in the world of React Native! This issue is packed with great posts, modules, some cool updates, and even a fix!

Editor-in-Chief,
Frank von Hoven at Infinite Red

P.S. Some links in the last issue were broken, so here they are so you can enjoy!

New iOS WebViews react-native-square-reader-sdk

Creating a Photo Sharing App with React Na tive

A detailed guide for creating a realtime photo-sharing app with React Native, Expo, and Pusher Channels.

React Native Firebase Tutorial: Build CRUD Firestore App

A comprehensive step-by-step tutorial on how to access a Firestore Database using React Native and the Firebase module.

S pritelove - Made With React Native

Spritelove is a full featured pixel studio focused on tooling and animation with the intent to make the creation of pixel art enjoyable on mobile for free and without any ads.

How to Build Your React Native Team

Technical and organizational caveats with adopting React Native. Intended for the startup founder or CTO who’s already decided on React Native, learn the pros and cons, how to make up your team, and how to proceed with your project.

How to Build Cloud-Powered Mobile Apps with Expo & AWS Amplify

An in-depth walk-through on how to create a cross-platform Expo app with features from the AWS Amplify CLI like user sign-in, AWS Lambda functions, an AWS AppSync GraphQL API, analytics, & storage.

Get Powerful React Native Crash Reporting

Automatically detect crashes in your React Native apps using Bugsnag. Handle minified JS using sourcemaps and surface fully symbolicated stacktraces for JavaScript, iOS, and Android all in one place. Get started with our free trial.

Find React Jobs Through Vettery

Vettery specializes in developer roles and is completely free for job seekers. Interested? Submit your profile, and if accepted onto the platform, you can receive interview requests directly from top companies growing their dev teams. React developers can get 5+ interview requests during their first week!

R eact Native 0.57.3

0.57.3 has been released and if you've tried creating a new project with it you might have experienced a crash when running your app. A fix should be in the next version, but in the meantime, run the following code to get back up and running. 🛠

rm -rf node_modules/ && yarn cache clean 
&& yarn install && rm -rf ~/.rncache

cd ./node_modules/react-native/scripts
./ios-install-third-party.sh
cd ../../..

cd ./node_modules/react-native/third-party/glog-0.3.5
./configure
cd ../../../..

I'll be in Atlanta, GA this week at Connect Tech teaching the React Native workshop on Wednesday, October 17 then checking out the talks on Thursday and Friday, so if you're going to be there, feel free to come find me! Let's talk React Native and take some pictures for the next issue of the newsletter!

React Conf 2018 is October 25 & 26! Exciting announcements are in store for the world of React and React Native. If you didn't get a ticket, no problem, I hear the conference will be live streamed from Henderson, NV!

You.i TV: How We're Scaling React Native

This blog shares how You.i TV is scaling React Native to deliver high-performance video apps across multiple platforms - using a single code base.

Debug Less and Ship Faster with Instabug

Tired of wasting time debugging your React Native app? Instabug attaches complete device details, network logs, and visual repro-steps with every bug report so you could focus on fixing your app instead of trying to reproduce the issue. It only takes a line of code to integrate the SDK and a phone shake to report a bug. Get started now for free.