React Native Nerds

This week, Jon ramps up his brewing plans with a logo contest, Spencer's girlfriend comes through and lands an XBox and hopefully is overcoming his motion sickness.

In the React arena we discuss state management and if you've never used anything more than component state we got you covered.  You'll learn when to up your state game and possibly which type of state management solution will work for you and your app.

If you've gotten into Redux or MobX, this is still interesting because we discuss the differences between multiple solutions and you may hear something that may make you switch!

0:00 - Introduction

0:05 - Jon's update / Brewery news

8:13 - Spencer's update

12:58 - State Management in 2021

14:08 - What is State

20:32 - Context

24:24 - Redux / Redux Toolkit

33:23 - MobX / MobX State Tree

40:23 - Recoil

43:38 - Apollo

45:14 - ReactQuery

49:38 - Zustand

54:10 - When to use 'em

56:58 - Migrating from one to another

58:31 - Wrap Up

 

Links:

Jon’s logo contest at LogoMyWay

https://www.logomyway.com/28555/friends/5dc00bc4e5

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/application-state-management-with-react

Zustand

https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand

MobX vs Redux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRUT5H6XPI

I’m never using Recoil.js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEYiYpASG2A

Spencer's Shameless Plugs

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

Jon's Shameless Plugs

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

In this episode, Jon deal with rats and realizes he can do impressions.  Spencer gets motion sick over video games but still wants (yet can't find) an xBox.

Our main topic this week covers how to be lazy when building mobile apps by carefully constructing reusable components saving you time and hopefully frustration.

Building a mobile app can be challenging, but you can make it easier on yourself by using some tools and patterns to build reusable components.  meaning you can use the same component in multiple places throughout your app, and in other apps.

 

0:00 - Intro

0:50 - RATS

8:46 - XBox motion sickness

10:44 - COVID comparisons

11:47 - Mobile news - Calm

15:38 - The key to sleep

16:17 - Main Topic - Custom Components

16:47 - Main Topic For Real This Time

20:16 - Props all the way down

25:52 - Core APIs

26:32 - Storybook

27:58 - Styled Components

29:47 - Keep 'em light

34:23 - Don't optimize before you need to

35:25 - UI Frameworks can help

37:27 - Felixbility

39:15 - WrapUp

 

Links

Calm valuation

https://www.businessofapps.com/news/calm-raises-75-million-at-2-billion-evaluation/

 

Spencer's Shameless Plugs

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

Jon's Shameless Plugs

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

39:15 - Wrap Up

This week Jon is losing his mind and obsessing over his brewery and where it will be, Spencer can't cool and still can't find an Xbox, but does seem to come up with some cheeky titles for his new courses.

When we get down to React Native we cover the important details about the recently released v0.64, what you need to do to prepare and what features are worth knowing about.

0:00 - Intro

0:40 - Spencer can't cook

5:05 - Jon's brewery news

8:17 - Spencer's weekly update

13:31 - Mobile news (Amazon's new MacOS EC2)

15:58 - React Native 0.64

16:01 - Hermes for iOS

17:24 - inline requires

19:42 - Shout Outs

20:53 - React 17

21:14 - Hermes proxy suport

22:02 - Hermes profile command

22:43 - Node 12

23:16 - Android min SDK bump

25:43 - XCode 12

26:57 - Prepare now

29:27 - Wrap Up

 

Links

Amazon adds MacOS

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/amazon-web-services-adds-macos-on-bare-metal-to-ec2/

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases

https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/issues/214

https://github.com/react-native-community/releases/blob/20a632d3a61153f813c020ef2c6bca6910958a10/CHANGELOG.md

https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/

 

Spencer's Shameless Plugs

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

Jon's Shameless Plugs

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

This week Spencer really wants an XBox and keeps getting denied, if anyone has a hookup - let him know.  Jon gets sucked into the mechanical keyboard community.

Then we focus in React Native and talk about how it all works with transpiling and polyfills,. The best part is that you don't need to understand all of this to use it and make great Apps.

 

03:20 - Jon fell down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole

08:10 - Apple Cutting Fees to 15% (if making less than $1mil/year)

10:10 - Foxconn and flip phones

12:40 - Spencer’s warning: he just learned what he’s talking about

14:40 - What is a JavaScript Runtime?

16:00 - The different JavaScript Runtimes available (presently) and when they’re used

20:30 - Flamboyant claims: the key to listener engagement

21:20 - How transpiling “just works”® in React Native

28:45 - What APIs are available in React Native? Talking polyfills.

31:00 - What is Hermes and how does it fit in?

34:45 - Where to learn more about this stuff

 

Apple price cut

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-slices-commission-rates-with-launch-of-new-small-business-app-developer-program

Foxconn’s folding iPhone

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/16/foxconn-allegedly-testing-apples-folding-iphone-for-release-in-2022

More information

https://reactnative.dev/docs/javascript-environment

https://medium.com/swlh/react-natives-re-architecture-in-2020-9bb82659792c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gm0owyO8HU

Babel resources we talked about

https://babeljs.io/

https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-transform-parameters

https://babeljs.io/docs/en/config-files/

Spencer's Shameless Plugs

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://youtu.be/rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

Jon's Shameless Plugs

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

We have a new friends of the show - Peter Piekarczyk joins us to talk about his company Draftbit and how it can help accelerate your mobile app development using their interface.  Build multiple screens, complex UIs with their drag-n-drop interface, tweak properties to get it just right and view the generated code, or export your app so you're not jailed into their system!  Oh did I mention you can scan a QR code at any point and view it immediately on your device?  Pretty amazing.

We also talk about beer, black Friday preparations, travel during these weird times and a lot more.

0:00 - Welcome

0:35 - Introduction of our guest

3:31 - Jon's update (brewery fun)

5:40 - Spencer's update (Firebase, and Black Friday preparation)

6:27 - Peter's update (Travel)

7:50 - Hammerspoon and Home Assistant

11:06 - Mobile News (Apple's One More Thing event)

17:15 - Draftbit

24:25 - Reason / Rescript

30:11 - Draftbit's Origin Story

33:17 - Workflow

39:29 - Video tutorials

40:39 - Getting access

42:32 - Wrap Up

 

Links:

Apple’s One More thing event

video only - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoEDgl_xBo

write up + video - https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21550892/apple-arm-silicon-event-macbook-air-pro-mini-mac-big-sur-biggest-announcements

Hammerspoon

https://www.hammerspoon.org

Home Assistant

https://www.home-assistant.io/

ReasonML

https://reasonml.github.io/

ReScript

https://rescript-lang.org/

Find Draftbit Online

Twitter: https://twitter.com/draftbit (@draftbit)

Web: https://draftbit.com

Find Peter Online

Twitter: https://twitter.com/peterpme (@peterpme)

Github: https://github.com/peterpme

Web: https://peterp.me

** Releasing this early this week **

** Because we talk about the "One More Thing" event on November 10th**

Did you know that Spencer wants to be a gamer now? He thinks hiring a VA is going to give him that time haha.  Jon is looking to fill in any free time he had but opening a brewery in his town and plans are flying all over the place. We would be remiss if we didn't mention quickly the burning trash heap that is our Election process.

BUT you're here for mobile development, so ...

Do your mobile apps look like crap?  Yea we thought so too.  We're going to cover how  you can up your design skills, without having to take a course.  With the resources we'll talk about you'll be able to figure out how to improve an app you're written or how to build it correct the first time.  We run through UI design / UX design flows / css and layout tips as well as using a pre-built design system.

 

0:00 - Welcome / the state of the US Dumpster fire

2:20 - Jon's building a brewery

6:24 - Spencer is a wannabe Gamer and hired a VA

13:36 - The vintage iPhone 5c

20:09 - Main topic intro

21:52 - Dribble

26:04 - UI Design Daily

28:10 - UX Archive

32:11 - FlatIcon.com

33:40 - UI Design sub-reddit

34:26 - Refactoring UI

39:31 - App analysis and critique

43:20 - CSS skills

44:33 - FlexBox Froggy

49:38 - Goldfish projects

 

Links:

iPhone 5c is “Vintage” with limited support

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/03/iphone-5c-is-now-considered-a-vintage-device-with-limited-support/

One More Thing event - on November 10th

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/one-more-thing-apple-announces-livestreamed-event-for-november-10/

Prices

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-silicon-macs-explained-everything-you-need-to-know-about-arm-macbooks

Dribbble

UXArchive

UI Design Daily

https://www.flaticon.com/packs

https://www.reddit.com/r/UI_Design/

UI kits

UIKitten

https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten/

React Native Elements

https://react-native-elements.github.io/react-native-elements/

Nativebase

https://nativebase.io/

Shoutem

https://shoutem.github.io/

React native paper

https://reactnativepaper.com/

React Native Material Kit

http://xinthink.github.io/react-native-material-kit/

React Native Material UI

https://github.com/xotahal/react-native-material-ui

Refactoring UI

 

Spencer's Shameless Plugs

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

Jon's Shameless Plugs

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

This week Jon sells his car and and Smoky The Bear (aka Spencer) talks about how ONLY YOU can prevent Chimney Fires.

When they settle down for the show topic, the guys review the cool packages, posts and projects they've come across recently.  There's some pretty neat things covered in this episode and really isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

If you have one to add - let us know and we'll mention it and YOU on the show.

 

0:17 - Welcome

0:44 - Jon's catchup / car and demo

3:30 - Spencer's catchup and fire prevention lesson

7:19 - Spencer's new class about building a chat app

8:19 - Brewery Teaser... because Jon doesn't have enough to do

12:01 - Main Topic!  Finally, right???

12:24 - Old packages and projects and the headache they are

13:07 - Drink Up [drinking game app]

13:55 - React Native Bottom Sheet - [package]

17:18 - Can it be done in React Native - [YouTube series]

19:32 - Lottie animation package - [package]

23:30 - React Native Camera Kit - [package]

24:59 - Hermes JavaScript Engine - [core react native feature]

25:51 - React Native Game Engine - [package / engine]

30:57 - Shared Element Transition - [YouTube series]

33:42 - Gas Buddy migration to React Native - [Blog Post]

32:42 - Wrap Up

 

Links:

Drink Up

https://github.com/Redseb/DrinkUpqw

React Native Bottom Sheet

https://github.com/gorhom/react-native-bottom-sheet

Season 4 of “Can it be done in React Native?”

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkOyNuxGl9jxB_ARphTDoOWf5AE1J-x1r

Lottie

https://github.com/lottie-react-native/lottie-react-native

React Native Camera Kit

https://github.com/teslamotors/react-native-camera-kit

HERMES

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/29914

React Native Game Engine

https://github.com/bberak/react-native-game-engine

https://github.com/bberak/react-native-game-engine-handbook

Shared Element Transition series

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQocKVqyqZDShhQWAzxS42cSP7ydl6blD

Gas Buddy rebuild

https://medium.com/@djmax/react-native-were-really-doing-this-8e69d7b7194f

 

Spencer's Shameless Plugs

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

Jon's Shameless Plugs

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

It's a big week for us, we discover that Spencer wants to hang up his laptop for a lathe and be a wood worker and why Jon is living MTV's Big Brother - sharing a living space with strangers.

Microsoft is rebuilding their apps with React Native, there's been several important albeit un-exciting updates to React and Node and we talk about NPM trying to go to war with Yarn.

For this week's topic we dive into what GraphQL is (and is not), why it's pretty cool and we cover both client and server implementations including 3rd party services.

 

01:30 - Spencer’s off week and lack of an update

02:04 - Jon on why to read the fine print of your Airbnb reservation

03:30 - The News (Microsoft using React Native, React v17, Node v15, NPM v7)

07:45 - News Continued, Talking about Draftbit

10:35 - What is Graphql? A high level discussion.

14:10 - How does Graphql work? What’s the integration look like?

18:00 - Why Graphql is so nice for mobile development

20:00 - Walking through an example of using Graphql for Jon’s conference app

24:45 - Graphiql. An amazing development tool for Graphql

26:00 - No more endpoint versioning

27:30 - Implementing Graphql

36:40 - Graphql is to REST as REST was to SOAP? Maybe not as dramatic…

37:10 - Jon repaving the road to hell 

 

Links:

Microsoft on React Native

React v17.0.0 released - no new features!!

Node v15 released

npm v7 released

Draftbit 

Graphql.org

Available Graphql tools

What is GraphQL - intro

Apollo GraphQL

GraphCMS

Spencer's Shameless Plugs

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

Jon's Shameless Plugs

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

Whelp, if you record often enough, you'll have a disaster.  Unfortunately Jon's mic was all static and very noisy for the first part of the show, so this episode doesn't have our typical catchup and mobile news sections. This is VERY unfortunate because Jon actually had a lot of extra time this past week to do some research and first hand dinking around with his app and talks about the different things he did.

We jump straight into securing your app, from how to securely store data to jail break protection.

 

0:00 - Intro

1:30 - environment vars (react-native-dotenv, react-native-config)

7:13 - expo-secure-store, react-native-keychain, react-native-sensitive-info

9:01 - Auth / Deep linking

11:44 - SSL Pinning

15:18 - Obfuscation

18:22 - Jailbreak protection

25:26 - Outro

Links

https://reactnative.dev/docs/security

Javascript Obfuscation

https://github.com/javascript-obfuscator/react-native-obfuscating-transformer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUwWmoJwSLA

SSL Pinning

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/an-introduction-to-pinning/

https://itnext.io/react-native-security-ssl-pinning-cde086210d58

React-Native-SSL-Pinning

https://github.com/MaxToyberman/react-native-ssl-pinning

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com

Jon's back!  In this episode we catch up a bit since it's been a couple weeks since we've spoken, we celebrate Spencer's launch of Spectrum 3, hit some Epic news and dive into the best ways we learn with tips along the way.

0:00 - Intro 

1:07 - Jon's moving saga and office space

5:11 - Spencer's update, Spectrum launch and camping naked

7:55 - NEWS:  React Native Radio

8:31 - Digital Ocean App Platform

11:13 - EPIC News / Court Date

11:44 - The Best Way To Learn [#clickBait]

13:25 - Doc diving

19:54 - The proper way to use tutorials + critical thinking

24:44 - Suck it up buttercup - if you're stuck, push through it

28:55 - Saturation and Emersion

29:56 - Community Involvement

33:21 - Open source contributions / good first issue

34:50 - Translation as a means of learning

36:15 - Book - Make It Stick

39:46 - Spencer's course review by Jon

42:34 - Community and Egghead.io

44:17 - Wrap up

 

Links:

Apple / Epic Trial

https://www.scribd.com/document/479056578/Epic-vs-Apple-Starts-May-3

Digital Ocean App Platform

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-app-platform-reimagining-paas-to-make-it-simpler-for-you-to-build-deploy-and-scale-apps/

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#app-platform

Make it Stick

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learning/dp/0674729013

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-i-teach

 

React Native Fundamentals Workshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmdmLhfwvQ

React Native School

https://reactnativeschool.com

 

FastLane Cheat Codes (Sign Up Now)

https://fastlanecheatcodes.com