This week Jamon and Mazen are joined again by Mark Erikson to discuss RTK vs MST  and some of the benefits and downsides they each have.

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. Gist with interesting early discussions on GH
2. Reactiflux
3. RTK docs 
4. Modern Redux
5. RTK 1.0
6. Redux Essentials 

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Mark - @acemarke

Ignite, the popular React Native boilerplate and CLI, has a new version out, code-named “Maverick”, and it has dozens of improvements! The hosts explore what’s new in this latest version of Ignite.

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. Maverick Announcement

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

In this episode the crew, joined by our friend Hodeem Miller, revisits some older common complaints about React Native to see if those critiques are still true today. 

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. Hodeem’s article
2. Reanimated 2
3. FlashList episode
4. ProGuard episode

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

This week: We're joined by Naoya Makino from the popular marketplace app, Mercari. He joins us to talk about what it was like to rebuild the company's native mobile app in React Native – all in 18 months!

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. Why Mercari decided to rewrite their iOS & Android apps from scratch — in React Native
2. Mercari's React Native Evolution 
3. Android Developer Fundamentals - Google India YouTube

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

Talha Naqvi from Shopify comes on React Native Radio to talk about the hot new FlashList and why it’s a drop-in replacement for FlatList in most cases.

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. FlashList
2. Recycler List View 
3. https://twitter.com/naqvitalha/status/1547224093962883072?cxt=HHwWgMCqybWH7PgqAAAA

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

We have two guests on the podcast this week! Max Metral from GasBuddy, and our very own Mark Rickert, who has joined us a few times before. In this episode the crew discusses the exciting adventure of rebuilding the popular GasBuddy app in React Native.

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. GasBuddy Entertains React Native
2. We are shipping React Native GasBuddy

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Mark -  @markrickert
• Max - @djmaxm
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin -  @robin_heinze

It’s been a while since we’ve done a “We React to News”! In this episode, we react to Shopify’s FlashList, Callstack’s Reassure, and more.

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. FlashList
2. FlashList integration with Reanimated
3. Callstack Reassure
4. React-native-keyboard-controller
5. RN Parallax Travel Card By Lucas Lima 
6. Zephyr
7. react-native-owl
8. Rob Walker RN Live
9. React Native Perspective Correction Image View  By Leon Kim

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

In this episode, Mazen and Robin dive into the latest release of React Native - Version 69!! They dive into what's changed and whats new in this version, along with attempting to discuss sportsball.

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. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2022/06/21/version-069
2. https://reactnative.dev/docs/new-architecture-intro
3. https://reactnativeradio.com/episodes/rnr-233-react-18-and-the-future-of-react-native
4. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/2d74de010b8ecc90e8b6b253ab01a98bb6c615ec/CHANGELOG.md

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze

Should you use Redux or MobX-State-Tree? Robin, Mazen, and Jamon do a breakdown of the various tradeoffs of these two popular state management libraries.

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. https://www.loom.com/share/9e3afe0547824e42bada06191e891ae1
2. https://mobx-state-tree.js.org/intro/welcome
3. https://redux.js.org/introduction/getting-started
4. https://reactnativeradio.com/episodes/175-state-management-in-react-native-sLR6hN_v

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

We've got a new Expo SDK! In this episode Jamon, Robin and Mazen dig into whats new and exciting with Expo SDK 45.

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. https://blog.expo.dev/expo-sdk-45-f4e332954a68
2. https://blog.expo.dev/a-peek-into-the-upcoming-sweet-expo-module-api-6de6b9aca492
3. https://docs.expo.dev/versions/v45.0.0/sdk/audio/#audiosample

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