React Native Newsletter

This issue: We're back from Chain React 2024 in Portland, Oregon!

Welcome to the July issue of the React Native Newsletter!

Chain React 2024 (our fifth!) in Portland, OR, was a success. Among the many highlights of this 3-day event, Infinite Red's CIO Gant Laborde gave a rousing keynote talk to remind React Native developers why we love this platform, Infinite Red's Director of Engineering Robin Heinze presented a fast-paced and informative talk about the advantages of using our time-tested and continually evolving project boilerplate Ignite to kick off new projects, and Infinite Red's CTO Jamon Holmgren hosted a panel of React Native experts to discuss the hottest topics facing React Native developers today.

Infinite Red's official videographer John Major Condon posted a video that captures the essence of the Chain React experience. Check it out!

Speaking of conferences, be on the lookout for Callstack's React Universe Conference 2024 in Wrocław, Poland, held September 5-6. This year, Infinite Red's co-host of the React Native Radio podcasts, Mazen Chami, will deliver a talk. Take a look at the Top React Native picks section below to find a 15% discount code for purchasing tickets to this exciting event!

The latest React Native release is 0.74.4

Added

Android specific

Stub com.facebook.react.settings on 0.74 (13ea273850 by @cortinico)

iOS specific

Prebuilt version of Hermes for visionOS (924fb3de9b by @okwasniewski)

Fixed

Don't break script phase and codegen when coreutils installed on macOS (e0799536ef by @blakef)
Remove setting of process.exitCode that breaks Jest tests (e42932cfc6 by @@douglowder)

iOS specific

Make sure to pass the RCTBridgeProxy to ViewManagers (d6c90cf7ed by @cipolleschi)
Implement shared atomic counters and replace static integers in RCTImageLoader and RCTNetworkTask that were accessed concurrently, which in some cases lead to data races. (ffc16fc18b by @hakonk)
Do not use temporary node when creating the .xcode.env.local (8408b8bc96 by @cipolleschi)
Building of iOS project when RCTAppDelegate is used in the project (be93092c1b by @nikhiltekwani09)
Fix error on handling privacy manifest (e39e9c4a60 by @cxa)

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.

	React Universe Conf 2024
	Callstack presents its annual conference about all things related to React, particularly React Native. It will be held in Wrocław, Poland, from September 5 to 6, 2024. Before you purchase your ticket, here's a 15% discount code you can use: IRxFriends15, courtesy of Callstack!

	Tree Shaking support for Expo
	Experimental Tree Shaking in Expo will be available for SDK 52!

	react-native-reanimated-graph
	Cool animated graphing library that uses reanimated.

	react-native-filament
	Launch of react-native-filament this week - a blazingly fast physically based 3D rendering engine built with C++ for React Native!

	whisper.rn
	High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model

	Building RN Video Player wtih Testing
	X post about a repository demonstrating building a video player with Expo and Gesture Handler (.

	App clip with React Native and New Arch (and Swift)
	A guide to building RN app clip with the new architecture

	Use a framework to build React Native apps
	Expo announced by React Native as the first official framework for React Native.

	Introducing rn-primitives!
	React Native Primitives. Unstyled universal components with a focus on accessibility. They offer a unified API across iOS, Android, and web platforms.

	React Navigation 7.0 Release Candidate
	Blog post announcing the React Navigation 7.0 Release Candidate!

	An open source framework to use React Native to build apps for any VR device
	Someone is actively revitalizing Viro, which is a library for React Native for VR/AR

	Introducing the Reanimated Cookbook
	Software Mansion presents real-life examples to help you learn React Native Reanimated

	Reanimated Can Block Your JS Threads
	Performance case study in how reading SharedValue.value in Reanimated can block the main UI thread and how to solve it.

Open source highlights from the React Native community

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

	Peyara-mouse-client
	Remote controlled mouse from phone - React Native app Open Source. It uses socket.io

	PiGo
	An app to manage you Raspberry Pi servers - Open Source React Native

	Sticknet Mobile
	A fully end-to-end encrypted social network that is distributed and written OSS in React Native!

	Basset Mobile
	An RN app for video/audio editing, compressing, converting, and quality changing.

	RNR 301 - RNR Explains: Using Native Driver for Animated
	Jamon and Robin dive into useNativeDriver, the native driver for animations, and explain how it boosts performance and delivers seamless animations in your React Native apps.

	RNR 302 - Landing a React Native Job with Taylor Desseyn
	Jamon, Robin, and Mazen talk with Taylor Desseyn about the current job market for React Native developers.

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Editor-in-chief: Derek Greenberg, Infinite Red

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This issue: We're back from Chain React 2024 in Portland, Oregon!

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Android specific

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Our top React Native picks this month

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

Open source highlights from the React Native community

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

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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