Simon talks with Rodrigo Figueroa, a React Native developer from Chile. We dive deep into building universal apps for iOS, Android, and the web with React Native, plus tools like Solito and Rodrigos packages around MedusaJS and Vercel AI!

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Rodrigo Figueroa

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bidah
• Github: https://github.com/bidah
• Universal Medusa: https://universal-medusa-docs.vercel.app
• React Native Vercel AI: https://github.com/bidah/react-native-vercel-ai

Links

• MedusaJS: https://medusajs.com
• Solito: https://solito.dev
• Codemods: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/upgrading/codemods
• Radix UI: https://www.radix-ui.com
• ShadCN: https://ui.shadcn.com
• Nativewind: https://www.nativewind.dev
• Vercel AI: https://github.com/vercel/ai

Simon talks with Alexandre Moureaux, a React Native developer focused on the performance of mobile apps. We dive into how to measure your app's performance, simple tricks to improve it, and his tool Flashlight to easily see your app's vital metrics!

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Alexandre Moureaux

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/almouro
• Flashlight: https://flashlight.dev

Links

• Measuring and Improving React Native Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3VCgKV0GE
• React-native-performance: https://github.com/oblador/react-native-performance
• Callstack reassure: https://github.com/callstack/reassure
• Expo image: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/image/

Simon talks with Jan Van Echelpoel, an independent digital product builder. We talk about Jans game Nightlands and what goes into developing a game with React Native, as well as the challenges of mobile games and the work they require.

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Jan Van Echelpoel

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/echlpl
• Website: https://www.jve.works
• Nightlands: https://nightlands.app

Links

• Apollo Client: https://www.apollographql.com/docs

Simon talks with Marc Rousavy, creator of the popular MMKV and Vision Camera Packages for React Native. We dive into Marc's background in C#, how he built his agency Margelo, and talk about the possibilities of Vision Camera in combination with ML and Skia!

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Marc Rousavy

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrousavy
• Website: https://mrousavy.com/
• Margelo: https://margelo.io/

Links

• React Native MMKV: https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-mmkv
• React Native Vision Camera: https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera

Simon talks with Benedikt Müller, a solutions engineer by day and indie hacker by night! We dive into the technical challenges of the AI project Feld, and how Benedikt is using Watermelon with Supabase to build an offline-first app!

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Benedikt Müller

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bndkt
• Website: https://bndkt.com/
• Feld: https://feld.app/
• Share my Stack: https://sharemystack.com/

Links

• Offline-first tutorial: https://bndkt.com/blog/2023/offline-first-expo-watermelondb-supabase
• WatermelonDB: https://watermelondb.dev/
• Powersync: https://www.powersync.co/
• TinyBase: https://tinybase.org/

Simon talks with Nate Wienert, the creator of Tamagui. We explore what Tamagui is, how it helps to build universal apps for native and mobile, and what's the best tech stack for React Native apps that target all platforms.

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Nate Wienert

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/natebirdman
• Tamagui: https://tamagui.dev

Links

• Tamagui Takeout: https://tamagui.dev/takeout
• Tamagui Studio: https://tamagui.dev/studio
• GQty: https://gqty.dev/

Simon talks with Daniel Williams, the maintainer of React Native Storybook. Daniel helps Simon to understand how Storybook works, and how the React Native library can be used to speed up the development of your apps!

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Daniel Williams

• Twitter
• Blog
• Github
• YouTube

Links

• SST: https://sst.dev/
• Arro: https://www.arrofinance.com/
• Storybook: https://storybook.js.org/

Simon talks with Catalin Miron, the expert in React Native animations. We discuss strategies to get started with animations, how interpolation works, and why you should use Reanimated!

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Catalin Miron

• Twitter
• YouTube
• AnimateReactNative.com

Links

• Animations should be fun - AppJS
• Moti
• React Native Marquee 

Simon talks with Vadim Savin, creator of the popular NotJustDev YouTube channel and brand! We talk about Hackathons, creating your own startups with code, finding ideas and niches, Vadims new Accelerator program and how not to over-engineer your side project!

Learn React Native - https://galaxies.dev

Vadim Savin:
Vadim Twitter: https://twitter.com/VadimNotJustDev
Vadim YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@notjustdev
notJustDev: https://www.notjust.dev/
notJustDev Accelerator: https://www.notjust.dev/accelerator

Links Mentioned:

• Tamagui
• Tamagui Takeout
• Supabase

Simon talks with Cedric van Putten, Engineer, and Jack of all trades at Expo! We talk about Expo vs React Native CLI, improvements for React Native debugging, Expo Router, and what else we can expect from Expo over the next time!

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Cedric Twitter: https://x.com/cedric_dev
Cedric Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cedric.dev