By Jamon Holmgren, Robin Heinze, Mazen Chami
Exploring React Native Together
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 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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
We've got a new Expo SDK! In this episode Jamon, Robin and Mazen dig into whats new and exciting with Expo SDK 45.
Tune in for this special announcement from Jamon and Robin!
In this episode, Jamon and Mazen, joined by James Hamilton, discuss how to make your Android APK file smaller using ProGuard.
Lizzi Lindboe joins Robin, Mazen, and Jamon aka Barry White to talk about accessibility in React Native!
In this episode Robin and Mazen hold down the fort while Jamon is gone and talk about their experiences with using React Native for desktop apps.
Jamon and Mazen are joined by Krzysztof Magiera, Director of engineering at Software Mansion to talk about all things Reanimated 2, and beyond.
In this episode, Jamon, Robin, and Mazen go through some of the differences in React Native 0.68. We also find out that somehow Robin managed to get "banned" from Twitter Communities.
In today's episode, Robin and Mazen talk about some common issues and errors you might encounter when building apps with react native and how to fix them.
Gant is back on the show! He joins Robin and Mazen to talk about what’s new in React 18, and how it ties back into React Native.
Robin, Jon Major, and Jamon discuss Jamon’s recent article, “Flutter is better than React Native…in all the ways that don’t matter.”
Ever used React DevTools Flamegraph? Flipper comes with an implementation of it and it’s super useful for finding slow-performing components. Listen to Robin, Jon Major, and Jamon discuss all things flamegraph.
It's that time again! Jamon and Robin react to news. This episode includes plenty of laughs Jamon's most recent "mistake", along with the latest news in the world of React Native.
Jamon, Robin, and Mazen talk with former RNR host, Josh Justice, about building an Expo App for Mobile and Web. We also found out that Jamon is the only one who likes ski'ing.
In this episode, Robin, Mazen, and Jon hold down the fort while Jamon is on vacation. They discuss Wordle, and what’s new in React Native 0.67.
Microsoft is doing some amazing work on React Native tooling. Tommy and Adam join the program to talk about rnx-kit, a collection of React Native tools by Microsoft.
Robin’s back! And Eve Porcello, author of Learning React and Learning GraphQL, joins us to talk GraphQL in React Native
We get the band together — Todd, Gant, and Jamon, along with Mazen as co-host, to discuss our decision about Chain React 2022 and some intriguing alternatives.
In this episode, Mazen and Jon Major are joined by Fernando Rojo, Co-Founder and CTO at BeatGig, to discuss the ins and outs of working with React Native Web on Next.js.
In this episode, Mark Rickert joins the show again to talk with Jamon and Mazen about the differences between React.js and React Native.
Meta engineering manager Kevin Gozali joins the show to talk about the React Native new architecture -- TurboModules, Fabric, codegen, and whether React Native developers need to go learn C++!
Mazen and Jon Major quiz Jamon on his new library, react-native-colo-loco, which is a library that lets you colocate your native components with your JSX/TSX components.
Jamon, Mazen, and Jon Major go over the latest news in the React Native world, including news from Expo, Native Base, and React Three Fiber!
In this episode, Jamon, Mazen, and Jon Major talk about what’s new with React Native 0.66, and…Sweatcoin?
In the second of this two-part series, Mark Rickert joins the podcast to talk about performance-tuning your React Native apps.
In the first of this two-part series, Mark Rickert joins the podcast to talk about performance-tuning your React Native apps.
Jamon and Mazen interview Peter Piekarczyk, cofounder of Draftbit, about building a startup on React Native, his Y Combinator experience, and what’s next for Draftbit. Plus Peter drops his number one piece of advice for startup founders!
Jon Major, Mazen, and Jamon continue last episode’s theme and do an overview of what’s involved with building iOS native components and hooking them up to the JavaScript side of React Native.
Jon Major, Mazen, and Jamon do an overview of what’s involved with building Android native components and hooking them up to the JavaScript side of React Native.
Jamon, Jon Major, Mazen, and Harris talk about the latest React Native news, including some recent React Native announcements and Expo news.
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...
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!
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.
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.)
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.
In our second “We React to News”, Robin and Jamon discuss Expo 42, Github Copilot, Detox/GenyMotion, and TypeScript 4.4.
Harris rejoins the team and we talk to the Infinite Red designers about the challenges and aspects of designing for React Native apps.
Robin, Jon Major, and Jamon talk with Rich Evans about Reactotron, which is a free desktop app for inspecting and debugging React Native apps.
Jamon and Jon Major enlist Mark Rickert to help in Robin’s absence. They talk about open source, dependencies, and … skydiving?
The React Native Radio team interviews Devin Abbott about his website, React Native Express, which is a great (and free) way to get started learning React Native!
What’s it like to go from React.js to React Native development? Jon Major Condon joins Jamon and Robin to talk about the transition from React for web to React for native.
Robin, Jamon, and new show co-host Jon Major Condon do a brand-new show format called “We React to News”. We talk about five of the biggest stories from the React Native community, including a lot of Expo news.
For the 200th episode, Robin and Jamon are joined by the team behind React Native Radio, Todd, Missy, Justin, and Jed, and talk about how an episode makes it from their mouths to … your ears?
Jamon's back! In this episode, Jamon and Robin discuss strategies that they've learned over the years for upgrading React Native.