Weekly Update
We're gearing up for Thanksgiving here in the USA and this year we're hosting 8 people in our NYC apartment. 😮 We'll be doing as much cooking outside as we can and hopefully we pull it off!
If you celebrate I hope you have a great time with family and spending some time AFK. Otherwise have a great week!
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Around the Web
React Native, Firebase and You
Make your apps ready for the international market by localizing your app by following this tutorial from Daniel Sternlicht.
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A bit older of a post but this one helped us out a lot this week and we learned a new way to easily add fonts to our project. From Dave Hudson.
Jobs
React Native Mobile Product Engineer | Envoy
Envoy is looking for an awesome React Native engineer to help build the office of the future for clients like Slack, Github, and Yelp. With great perks like healthy lunches everyday, unlimited vacation, and travel credits this isn’t one to miss! Did we mention that they’re a distributed/remote team? 😎 Learn more about the position and about the team.
Frameworks
Expo 23
Expo 23 shipped this week and is based off of React Native October 2017 or 0.50.0. Here's some highlights:
- Beta support for release channels allowing you to target different environments when deploying your app
- Support for background Over The Air (OTA) updates
ImagePickernow supports video 👌🏻
Mapbox
Mapbox launched a Maps SDK for React Native this week and it looks great! You can read more about the launch here and checkout the project on Github. Based on the SDKs they have available for other platforms this project should be one to keep an eye on.
Videos
Introducing GraphQL Subscriptions
Learn about GraphQL Subscriptions from Lee Byron.
Podcasts
React Native Radio
Learn about building Native Modules from Florian Rival in this week's React Native Radio podcast.
Redux
A Simple Improvement For Your Redux Store
Learn how to enhance your Redux store with this one weird trick from Canberk Morelli.
How to Reduce Action Boilerplate
I've always found action boilerplate to be a pain point of Redux, this post from Nicholas Jamieson sets you right.
Design
How to use SVG as a Placeholder, and Other Image Loading Techniques
Interesting concept here on reducing load times of images and enhancing your user experience from José M. Pérez.
Sponsorship
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