React Native Radio – Details, episodes & analysis

Ignite X is here!

Frank Calise stops by, which means it's the start of Ignite season! After nearly a decade of React Native, Infinite Red's popular boilerplate is celebrating a huge milestone with a new release. Mazen and Frank break down everything that's new in Ignite X—don’t miss this deep dive into what’s new!

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With nearly a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Show Notes

• Ignite X Blog Post
• Ignite X GitHub Milestone

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Frank Calise: @frankcalise
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• Infinite Red Slack Community: https://community.infinite.red

Our hosts Robin Heinze and Mazen Chami chat with Marc Rousavy about Nitro Modules, a powerful new tool that outperforms both Turbo Modules and Expo Modules. They discuss how its object-oriented design simplifies native module development and enhances React Native’s performance!

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With nearly a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

Show Notes

• Original Tweet
• C++/JS Types
• Benchmark code

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Marc Rousavy: @mrousavy
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• Infinite Red Slack Community: https://community.infinite.red

Jamon and Robin dive into useNativeDriver, the native driver for animations, and explain how it boosts performance and delivers seamless animations in your React Native apps.

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

Jamon, Jon Major, Mazen, and Harris talk about the latest React Native news, including some recent React Native announcements and Expo news.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

• Blog post for preparing your app for iOS 15 and Android 12
• Blog post on React Natives many platform vision.
• Mo Gorhom's blog post on React Native Bottom Sheet v4
• Expo's announcement about async bundle loading

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Harris - @nomadicspoon
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Jon Major - @jonmajorc
• Mazen - @mazenchami

React Native EU 2021 was fully online and we watched every talk! Jamon, Robin, and Mazen talk about what piqued their interest and what you should know about this React Native focused conference. Also: Jamon shows off his sound bite editing skill….

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Coinbase’s Brent Walter and Jacob Thornton join the show today to talk about Coinbase’s switch from native to React Native, and discuss how important it is to get buy-in. Great show to listen to if you’re considering this switch too!

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Blogpost announcing Coinbase’s successful transition to React Native.

Connect With Us!

• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
• Brent -  Linkedin
• Jacob - @fat
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Mazen - @mazenchami

Jamon, Jon Major, and Mazen interview Haris Mahmood about Shopify’s “Restyle” styling system. We talk about why Restyle is TypeScript-first and how it helps scale their styles at Shopify.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Restyle
2. Polaris Token
3. Styled System
4. Shop

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Haris - @harisaurus
3. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
4. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
5. Mazen - @mazenchami

Robin, Jamon, Jon Major, and new guest-host Mazen Chami introduce their favorite third-party React Native libraries, including GiftedChat, RN Popover, and more! (In fact, Robin had so many we had to cut some out.)

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. Awesome React Native 
2. React Native Gifted Chat
3. React Native Screens
4. Victory Native
5. React Native Calendar Strip

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Mazen - @mazenchami
5. Robin - @robin_heinze

In this episode, Jamon, Robin, and Jon highlight some of the new additions that you can expect to see in the newly released React Native v0.65. 

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. RootTag & RootTagContext

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Jon Major - @jonmajorc
4. Robin - @robin_heinze

In our second “We React to News”, Robin and Jamon discuss Expo 42, Github Copilot, Detox/GenyMotion, and TypeScript 4.4.

This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.

Helpful Links:

1. 3D Game Programming for Kids
2. Fan mail
3. RNR 191
4. Expo SDK 42
5. GenyMotion/Detox blog post
   1. Twitter post from GenyMotion
   2. Twitter post from Detox

Connect With Us!

1. React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio
2. Jamon - @jamonholmgren
3. Robin - @robin_heinze