Announcing React Native 0.63 with LogBox

The latest version of React Native has shipped and it includes some great stuff like LogBox, Pressable, and PlatformColor. This release arrives at almost three months since RC0 was cut as contributors are, expectedly, at reduced capacity due to COVID-19.

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Our Transition to React Native

Khan Academy has been working on their React Native transition since 2017, and as of now they have finally completed the task! In this post, their mobile lead recaps why they started the project in the first place, some of the bumps along the way, and what they learned in the end of this successful job.

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The Expo SDK 39 Roadmap

After shipping Expo 38 a couple weeks back, the team jumped into work on Expo 39 - making iOS 14 support their top priority, amongst others. Check out the full list of what they're working on, including some nice-to-haves, in this post.

expo.io  

React Native Jobs

Job listings especially tailored for React Native developers. Updated daily.

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Working with Error Boundaries

While hopefully your users will never have to see them, having error boundaries gracefully handle issues in your app with a good design can make a big difference in overall quality. In this post, learn more about them and how to best apply them in React Native.

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Getting user device timezone and converting UTC time-stamps using the offset

Working with timezones is always a bit of a pain if you've never had to do it before. In this post, you'll learn how to convert from UTC to the user's local time.

dev.to  

How to add a custom calendar event in a native iOS app using React Native

The always wonderful Aman has whipped up a tutorial on how you harness native iOS calendar event creation within your app.

fritz.ai  

web-ridge/react-ridge-translations: Simple 💪 fast ⚡️ and small 🎈 (400 bytes) translation library for React / React Native

Karthik-B-06/react-native-segmented-control: A Segmented Control with React Native for both iOS and Android

douglasjunior/react-native-recaptcha-that-works: ⚛ A reCAPTCHA bridge for React Native that works.

goatandsheep/react-native-dotenv: Load react native environment variables using import statements.

nomi9995/react-native-bottomsheet-reanimated: Highly configurable component imitating native bottom sheet behavior, with fully native 60 FPS animations!

Fitpassu/react-native-stripe-payments: Lightweight, easy to integrate and use React native library for Stripe payments (using Payment Intents) compliant with SCA (strong customer authentication)

dbilgin/react-native-styled-markup: Markup text with formatting capability for react native.

thomasgazzoni/react-native-keyboard-area: React Native component that provides a View that always match the height of the keyboard

zyq666/react-native-common-toast: A toast component with react-native

felipecespedes/react-native-bigheads: Big Heads avatars for React Native

Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native) @ Axios

Our Mobile Engineers are a critical part of our mission to deliver the cleanest, smartest, most efficient and trustworthy content to our users. You will architect and grow new and existing codebases, give technical input and feedback to Axios’ product and design teams for new features, and help develop the skills of your teammates with industry best practices around testing, accessibility, and documentation.

grnh.se  

React Native Reanimated 2 - a webinar by Krzysztof Magiera

If you missed the webinar showing off the features of Reanimated 2 - you're in luck as you can still catch it here. Plus, the team is doing a live Q&A that starts in one hour from now!

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Five Years of Tech Diversity Reports—and Little Progress

We're adding a new section to the newsletter - Diversity. In here, we want to highlight articles on the topic, engaging Twitter threads, or members of the community from underrepresented groups. In this first article, Wired breaks down how some of tech's biggest names have been missing the mark on their diversity progress.

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React Native Nerds

Join Spencer Carli and Jonathan Wheat as they discuss React Native topics you need to know about to become a better developer. Thanks for the submission, Spencer!

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