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React Native Newsletter

This week’s issue features articles about Shopify's migration of their Shopify Mobile app from native to RN and a time-saving technique for testing push notifications in an iOS Simulator.

Hello readers! Planning on Chain React this year?
If so, our very own Gant Laborde has written a helpful article that you can send to your boss to convince them of why this conference is worth the investment.

On to some highlights from the Top Picks for this issue, starting with a rather epic article describing how Shopify has been migrating their Shopify Mobile app from native to React Native. It covers their strategic approach, including their RN Accelerator training program that helped bring their native developers up to speed with React Native.

Another interesting article illustrates a technique for testing push notifications in an iOS Simulator. While the article isn't about React Native code per se, it is relevant to RN devs seeking an easy way to deliver a push notification payload to a simulator during development and testing.

There's a lot more to discover in today's issue. Enjoy!

Message from the editor

This week's React Native news update from Editor-in-chief, Jon Major Condon. Watch on YouTube!

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.

	Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native
	Sounds like from this tweet that Shopify is going all in on React Native. Read all about what they have learned in their journey in migrating their largest app (Shopify Mobile) from native to React Native.

	Adding web support to a React Native project in 2023
	An article, submitted by a reader from the community, about how to add web support to a React Native project that was created with "react native init". The goal is to add support for web, touching as few existing files as possible to ensure that upgrades using the react native upgrade helper will be as painless as possible.

	Announcing General Availability of M1 Workers on M1 Build
	Faster build times on EAS are now available from M1 VMs that get spun up. We at Infinite Red tested this out on the app we are building for the upcoming 2023 Chain React conference. It will become the default in Expo 48

	Brownfield React Native development at Picnic
	A well-written article about real-world React Native brownfield app development

The Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization by Callstack

Discover the Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization – a comprehensive source of knowledge in the field. The Guide is a 200-page, free ebook that will show you how to improve the stability, performance, and resource usage of your React Native apps. All the content is written by React Native experts and Core Contributors, so you know it’s a great resource.

Download for free ⇢

	Testing Push Notifications in iOS Simulator
	Our developers were excited about the technique described in this article which uses a feature available in XCode (available since version 11.4) to simplify testing Push Notifications in an iOS Simulator.

	What makes Ignite v8 ("Maverick") so cool
	In this Tweet, Jamon Holgren lists impressives features in Ignite, the React Native boilerplate that Infinite Red developers created, maintain, improve continually, and use in their own projects.

Resolute Software- The 360-Degree Guide to Building a Mobile App with React Native

It can be challenging to choose the right technological stack when you want to create a mobile application with a responsive user interface that works on all platforms. Further you need to validate your choice and modify the technology to meet your specific requirements.

Our guide gives examples of the business cases when React Native should be considered as well as maps out the process of selection, validation, and the four-stage process of bringing a mobile app to market.

Get the guide ⇢

Open source highlights from the React Native community

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

	React Native Fiesta
	Fiesta is a set of animations (powered by @shopify/react-native-skia) ideal for celebration and user engagement. It's still in the experimental phase and not fully ready for prime time, but the repo has plenty of code examples and documentation for adventurous devs to explore. The animations are simply fantastic; check it out!

	React Native iOS Like Calculator
	This simple - but useful - calculator app is written in Expo React Native. It's a work in progress.

	React Native ChatGPT
	Learn how to integrate ChatGPT into your own React Native app by studying this codebase. It keeps track of your chats and handles authentication.

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	RNR 259 - Tamagui with Nate Weinert
	Today the hosts interview Nate Weinert about Tamagui, the one stop shop UI kit for React Native.... Listen to all episodes. Listen & subscribe! ⇢

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React Native Newsletter - React Native Newsletter #167

This week’s issue features articles about Shopify's migration of their Shopify Mobile app from native to RN and a time-saving technique for testing push notifications in an iOS Simulator.

Message from the editor

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.

Migrating our Largest Mobile App to React Native

Adding web support to a React Native project in 2023

Announcing General Availability of M1 Workers on M1 Build

Brownfield React Native development at Picnic

Testing Push Notifications in iOS Simulator

What makes Ignite v8 ("Maverick") so cool

Open source highlights from the React Native community

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

React Native Fiesta

React Native iOS Like Calculator

React Native ChatGPT

RNR 259 - Tamagui with Nate Weinert

That’s a wrap!

Have a submission for an article or open source project? Send those links here! View all past issues, or invite a friend to join the newsletter!

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