React Native Newsletter - React Native Newsletter #175

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This week’s issue features articles about support for dynamic imports and symlinks in React Native 0.72.

Dear React Native Community,

As your Chief Editor for the React Native Newsletter, it’s been great to share updates, facts, and new developments in this newsletter. But this will be my last edition as Editor in Chief.

What’s next? I’ve decided to try new media for sharing React Native knowledge. Maybe there’s a YouTube channel in the future, or some other platform - who knows what’s next!

However, while I’m leaving the newsletter, I’m not leaving Infinite Red. I will keep working with this amazing team, bringing our love for React Native to life in different, interesting ways.

I’m very happy to announce that Derek Greenberg will be taking over my position. He’s played a key role in content creation behind the scenes, and I trust him to maintain the high standards you expect from this newsletter.

I am very thankful for the support and friendships of this lively community. Even though my role is changing, I hope we will keep crossing paths in the React Native world and beyond. You can stay updated by following me on Twitter and Instagram at @jonmajorc.

I’m excited to bring you along on this new journey and eager to see what comes next! Here’s to the future and all the coding adventures ahead.

MAJOR, OUT :saluting_face:

 

The latest React Native releases are:

Stable 0.72.0 - Symlink Support, Better Errors, and more
Latest 0.72.3 - Reverts a fix that wasn’t working on old Xcode versions



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

article

Dynamic imports supported in React Native

The release of React Native 0.72 and updates to Metro gives us access to require.context, so we can build tools like Storybook and Expo router without needing to generate imports at build time. We can instead dynamically import them at runtime.

article

Upcoming changes for libraries in React Native 0.73

All libraries will require a couple of 1-liner changes to android/build.gradle for the upcoming release of React Native 0.73. This Github issue filed under discussions-and-proposals covers the details. 

video

Upgrading node broke everything...I used ChatGPT to fix it!

Infinite Red's CTO Jamon Holmgren has launched a YouTube video series: Jamon's Code Quests. In this inaugural video, Jamon demonstrates how ChatGPT helped him solve node dependency issues caused by upgrading the node version of an open source library used by many React Native apps.

article

React Native 0.72 - Symlink Support, Better Errors, and more

Read about the highlights and breaking changes for the newly released React Native 0.72.

article

How to shrink (tree-shake) lodash in bundle file for React Native?

Good article about React Native and Metro’s tree shaking (or lack thereof), using Lodash to illustrate how importing a whole library instead of individual imports could be bad.

X thread

The basics of Layout Animations in React Native Reanimated

Kacper Kapuściak of Software Mansion presents a tutorial on Layout Animations.

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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.

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React Native Hooks

This is a library that wraps React Native APIs into hooks.

React Native Radio

New!
RNR 272 - Real Life React Native: Nick Alekhine at NTWRK

In a new series, Jamon interviews Nick Alekhine from NTWRK about real-world experience building and shipping a React Native e-commerce app.a. 

Listen to all episodes. Listen & subscribe! ⇢

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