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React Native Newsletter

Welcome to Issue 165 of the React Native Newsletter!

We're back from the holidays and ready for 2023 with a new design that makes it easier to scan for the React Native (and React Native-related) content that you seek. We've also shrunk the newsletter file size so it loads faster. Please let us know what you think! Your feedback matters, as it will help us tweak the layout and design in future issues.

The featured Top Picks for this issue are two items about Maestro: an article about how to use it to write e2e tests for your React Native apps, and a Tweet that introduces Maestro Studio, which is a tool that makes it easier to find your UI elements when writing your tests.

Enjoy! 

Our top React Native picks this week

React Native articles, tweets, and docs from submitted by the community and Infinite Red’s team of engineers.
twitter thread

Coming soon: expo-image by Software Mansion

Concerned that react-native-fast-image is no longer maintained? Check out this Tweet and its thread, which is all about the upcoming expo-image module. An experimental, incomplete, and undocumented version was made available here 7 days ago. It's far from ready for use in a production app and it isn't available in the managed workflow yet, but it looks very promising.
article

Getting the most from Github CoPilot

This article, which offers practical techniques for working with Github CoPilot to improve your productivity, uses React Native code examples throughout.
twitter thread

Introducing Maestro Studio

Check out this Tweet about Maestro Studio - a helpful visual tool for finding your UI elements when writing e2e tests with Maestro.
article

Test your React Native app with Maestro

This article is a great overview of Maestro, which is a framework for writing e2e tests that works well for React Native app development.
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Open source highlights from the React Native community

Open source React Native projects, libraries, node modules, or components submitted by the community.
library

Abacus

Abacus is a React Native iOS implementation of Firefly III, a free and open source personal finance manager. It's built on Expo SDK 47, uses Redux for state management, and makes use of Native Base for the UI.
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RNR 255 - RTK Query with Lenz Weber-Tronic

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.

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Editor-in-chief: Jon Major Condon, Infinite Red

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React Native Newsletter #164

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Featured: Expo Modules API, Expo router Issue #164 View in Browser Welcome to issue 164 of the React Native Newsletter! In this issue, we have two Expo-related Top Picks; a Tweet announcing the release

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Featured: Release of Expo SDK 47 and the onViewableItemsChanged FlatList prop Issue 163 View in Browser This week's issue features an article about the release of Expo SDK 47 and two articles

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Featured: Expo SDK 47 Beta and a 2022 React Native community survey Issue 162 View in Browser This week's issue features articles about Expo SDK 47 Beta and a chance for you to suggest ways to

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Featured: Improve RN app startup time, splash screen animation with React Native Reanimated Issue 161 View in Browser This week's issue features articles about improving the startup time of React

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Featured: The release of Ignite 8.0: "Maverick", troubleshooting ProGuard issues on Android Issue #160 View in Browser This week's issue features a blog post announcing the release of

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