Today the hosts interview Nate Wienert about Tamagui, the one stop shop UI kit for React Native. 

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.

Helpful Links:

1. Tamagui
2. Tamagui 1.0 announcement
3. JSXStyle (alternative)
4. Dripsy (alternative)
5. Sponsor Nate’s OSS efforts
6. Stitches
7. Starter kit

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

Jamon, Robin, Mazen, and ChatGPT discuss whether AI coding assistants will take our jobs in the future – and how to deal with it as developers.

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.

Helpful Links:

1. Jamon’s Copilot article 
2. Gant’s AI book 

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

Meta’s core React Native team responded to the latest discussion about what could be improved in React Native. Robin, Mazen, and Jamon go over their response!

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.

Helpful Links:

1. Original thread
2. Meta’s Response
3. RNR 196

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

In this episode, we talk with Evan Bacon from Expo! Evan joins Robin, Mazen, and Jamon to discuss the newly released Expo Router, the first file-based router for mobile apps. Learn how you can build, maintain, and scale projects using Expo Router.

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. Expo Router RFC
2. Former Twitter CEO Jack’s response to Evan

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

RTK Query is a hot new data fetching & caching library that integrates with Redux Toolkit. The creator, Lenz Weber-Tronic (coolest name ever), came on the podcast to talk about what makes it special.

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. RTK Query docs
2. React Query
3. Lenz's Egghead Course on RTK Query

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Robin - @robin_heinze
• Lenz - @phry

Today Robin and Jamon go over the Github discussion about what could be improved in React Native. Jamon also recounts an embarrassing story about jet lag.

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://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/discussions/528
2. https://reactnative.directory/
3. Gant’s talk
4. RNR 253

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

Another episode of "We React to News" is upon us! Today, Mazen and Robin are talking about all sorts of juicy topics like Expo 47, Solito, and Meta adopting Kotlin as primary language for Android development, just to name a few. 

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. Expo SDK 47 beta is now available | by Brent Vatne | Oct, 2022 | Exposition
2. Introduction | Expo Router
3. Expo Router | Solito
4. RFC: File System-Based Native Routing with Expo and React Native | by Evan Bacon | Sep, 2022
5. RNR 224 - React Native Web on Next.js with Fernando Rojo
6. From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin - Engineering at Meta
7. Create React Native Library 0.25
8. Alexandre Moureaux New Architecture Benchmarking on Twitter
9. React Native types moving out of DefinitelyTyped
   1. https://twitter.com/kelset/status/1572994139649720322
   2. https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/discussions/490#discussioncomment-3693520

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

Ionic’s Josh Thomas joins the podcast to talk about their new React Native Portals feature, allowing for highly performant microfrontends in React Native apps. 

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. Portals
2. Portals docs

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• React Native Radio - @ReactNativeRdio
• Jamon - @jamonholmgren
• Josh - @jthoms1
• Mazen - @mazenchami

In this episode, Mazen and Robin review RN 0.70 to see what's new, what's broken, and everything in between. Mazen also continues his quest to get Robin hooked on sports-ball. 

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. RNR 238 - Accessibility in React Native with Lizzi Lindboe
2. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2022/09/05/version-070
3. https://reactnative.dev/blog/2022/07/08/hermes-as-the-default
4. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
5. https://reactnative.dev/docs/next/the-new-architecture/landing-page

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

Regardless if you're a junior developer, or a seasoned code wizard, you're going to love this episode! Today, the hosts walk through React Native Firebase and it's amazing capabilities.

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
• Mazen - @mazenchami
• Robin - @robin_heinze