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This issue: First Looks at Static Hermes

Welcome to the November issue of the React Native Newsletter!

The onset of Winter, with fewer hours of daylight and colder weather, has produced a bumper crop of articles, Xeets, and videos for this issue, all submitted by the team at Infinite Red and members of the React Native Community such as yourself.

In this issue, we have two Top Pick items about Static Hermes. Both provide an early-days overview, so this is a great opportunity to take a peek into what could be a game changer in React Native's future.

The latest React Native release is:

Latest 0.72.6 - Updates include:

All Platforms: Fixed a potential bug in EventEmitter when used with certain Babel configurations that incorrectly polyfill the spread operator for iterables.
iOS-specific: Set the max version of Active support to 7.0.8

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

Our top React Native picks this month

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

	Static Hermes: First Look
	Infinite Red's CTO Jamon Holmgren just posted a new video about Static Hermes, which was announced at RNEU 2023. Note that this is bleeding-edge stuff and not stable! But it's always a good idea to learn about what's coming up in the near future.

	Static Hermes
	Tzvetan Mikov Xeets about how Static Hermes could a performance game changer.

	Amazon has been added to the React Native Showcase
	Amazon is now listed in the React Native Showcase with 5 apps that deliver customer-facing features developed in React Native, including the Amazon Shopping app.

	Simplifying React Native App Updates with Expo EAS and In-App Updates
	A nice, concise article about using Expo EAS and in-app OTA updates.

	Working on your React Native app after the Release of Xcode Version 15.0.1
	Friend of Infinite Red David Leuliette (@flexbox) offers a fix for simulators no longer showing up after updating to a recent release of Xcode.

	What is Expo Prebuild??
	Expo released this great explainer for Prebuild. It succinctly explains the concepts and relates it to other well known examples.

	Stylesheet versus Object versus Inline Object
	Check out this well-researched dive into the performance impact of using React Native Stylesheets. Also worth checking out: how we do styling in our popular React Native boilerplate Ignite

	Golden Template for create-react-native-library
	React Native doesn't have an official method for creating libraries. That's why this RFC was created to address this issue. More details about this in the Xeet thread.

	Announcing the PowerSync React Native Client SDK
	The PowerSync RN client SDK has been released, and it jives well with Supabase (but also other backends) to provide offline-first support very easily.

	Legend State 2.0: Performance and Persistence
	Since the release of Legend State 1.0, they've made a lot of little improvements, but version 2.0 brings a leap forward in remote persistence plugins, DX for beginners, and performance.

	Simple Reanimated Animated View Tricks with Catalin Miron - React Native 20/80
	Catalin Miron (@mironcatalin, founder of AnimateReactNative.com, shows reanimated tricks to David Leuliette (@flexbox) in this lively and informative video.

	Node.js Mobile is rebooted
	Announcing the reboot of Node JS for React Native (and other mobile technologies).

	How to Set Up a Well-structured React Native project with Ignite
	Aymane Missouri, of consultancy Nimbleways, wrote this article on improving app development with React Native and Ignite. Learn about naming conventions, app structure, and efficient cross-platform development.

	Announcing v2 of expostack.dev, the most configurable way to create an Expo app!
	The goal of this CLI is to make jumping into Expo seamless, with an initial focus on Expo power users while being mindful of those getting started.

Open source highlights from the React Native community

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

	RandomQuotes
	This app displays results from the Random Quotes API in a nice UI.

	React Native Compressor
	Compress image, video and audio like Whatsapp. The documentation for this project is top-notch!.

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	RNR 278 - Real Life React Native: Matt Wood From Teamworks
	Mazen interviews Matt Wood from Teamworks about their real-world experience building and shipping a React Native app. Listen to all episodes. Listen & subscribe! ⇢

	RNR 277 - Expo Launch Party
	In this episode, Robin and Mazen are joined by Doug Lowder and Gabriel Donadel from Expo, They discuss the recent updates and launches by Expo, including Rollouts for EAS Update, SSO, Expo Orbit, and more! Listen to all episodes. Listen & subscribe! ⇢

That’s a wrap!

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Editor-in-chief: Derek Greenberg, Infinite Red

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