React Native Radio

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Host: Charles Max Wood Episode Summary Charles talks about his journey as a podcaster and his mission with Devchat.tv. Devchat.tv is designed to home podcasts that speak to all developer communities. Charles also plans Devchat.tv to host shows for technologies that are on the verge of a breakthrough and will be a lot more widely available in the near future such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). There are new shows being added continuously to reach out to new communities, some examples of which are: a Data Science show, a DevOps show and an Open Source show. As a kid, Charles would record his own shows on a tape recorder. He was always interested in technology. While studying Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, he worked in the University's Operations Center. Upon graduation, he started working for Mozy where he was introduced to podcasts. Listen to the show to find out the rest of Charles' story, some of the lessons and tips he learned throughout his journey and the evolution of the shows on Devchat.tv. If there isn't a show for your community and you would like there one to be, reach out to Charles. Also if there was a podcast about a programming related subject that ended abruptly and you would like it to continue, reach out to Charles. Devchat.tv would like to host these podcasts. Links Charles' Twitter EverywhereJS JavaScript Community EverywhereRB Ruby and Rails Community Find Your Dream Job As A Developer Devchat.tv on Facebook Devchat.tv Picks EverywhereJS JavaScript Community EverywhereRB Ruby and Rails Community Netlify Eleventy https://github.com/cmaxw/devchat-eleventy

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Josh Justice Charles Max Wood Joined Special Guest by Florian Rival Summary Florian Rival gave a talk at the recent React Amsterdam, he joins the panel in discussing the major points of his talk. Florian shares the high points of using React Native compared to other platforms. He discusses his game engine and getting it working in WebAssembly. The panel discusses Florian’s development journey and what it was like getting into web development. Florian shares tips for developers new to web development. Josh shares what he learned and what stood out to him from Florian’s talk. The panel discusses game development; Florian discusses the games he has made and gives tips for getting into game development. The importance of testing coverage and Florian’s testing practices are discussed. Links Native Web Apps: React and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps - Florian Rival https://github.com/4ian https://twitter.com/florianrival http://www.florianrival.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ReactNativeRadio/ https://twitter.com/R_N_Radio Picks Josh Justice: Chain React 2019: Hermes Engine Announcement Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard for Mac Charles Max Wood: https://codecanyon.net/ Florian Rival: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Anna Doubkovar Summary Anna Doubkovar, a developer at Hive, shares her experience switching to React Native from React. Anna and Charles Max Wood discuss the reusability when moving from React to React Native. Anna talks about using React Native Web. Charles asks Anna about performance, how they measure performance and what kinds of performance changes they are making to their apps. Anna shares how helpful users are in discovering performance problems in mobile apps. Anna and Charles discuss the benefits of working with React Native and give tips for those getting started in React Native. Links https://github.com/react-navigation/react-navigation https://twitter.com/lithinn https://www.facebook.com/ReactNativeRadio/ https://twitter.com/R_N_Radio Picks Charles Max Wood: Soccer Kingdoms of Heckfire Devchat.tv Youtube Channel https://75hard.com/info Anna Doubkovar: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Sponsors Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Charles Max Wood Joined by Special Guest: Michał Pierzchała Summary Michał Pierzchała, a member of the JestJS core team, joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the React Native Testing Library. Michał explains why his team built the library and the problems they were experiencing with Enzyme. Enzyme and the React Native Testing Library are compared and the pro’s and con’s of using each is considered. Charles asks Michał about writing tests and pulling the library into a project. The panel discusses JestJS; Michał explains what he does for the JestJS team. Michał shares what the teams have in store for both JestJS and the React Native Testing Library. The episode ends with a discussion about React Native CLI. Links https://callstack.com/ https://jestjs.io/ https://airbnb.io/enzyme/ https://github.com/callstack/react-native-testing-library https://twitter.com/thymikee https://www.facebook.com/ReactNativeRadio/ https://twitter.com/R_N_Radio Picks Charles Max Wood: The MFCEO Project The 75 Hard https://expo.io/ Michał Pierzchała: https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.60.0-rc.0

Sponsors: Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus CacheFly Panel Nader Dabit Spencer Carli Peter Piekarczyk Joined by Special Guest: Wouter Van den Broek Summary Wouter Van den Broek explains the difference between a distributed team and working remote. The panel discusses what to do when you receive messages in your off hours. They share the benefits of working remotely for both the company and the developer. Wouter gives advice for companies who want to adopt a remote working model; including tips for onboarding, communication, and having a relationship with remote employees. The panel discusses the negatives of remote work and having remote workers, they also come up with some ideas to address these negatives. The episode ends with a discussion on productivity in an office versus at home and digital nomads. Links https://github.com/wbroek Picks Spencer Carli: https://shift.infinite.red/remote-work/home https://learn.handlebarlabs.com/p/react-native-by-example-free Peter Piekarczyk: https://docs.draftbit.com/docs Wouter Van den Broek: Remote: Office Not Required https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ Nader Dabit: https://www.twitch.tv/dabit3 Nader Dabit's Youtube channel

Sponsors: Radio Infinite Red TripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonus Panel: Nader Dabit Special Guest: Catalin Miron In today’s episode of the React Native Radio Podcast, the panel talks with Catalin Miron who is currently working for Skype. Catalin uses React and React Native and talks with Nader Dabit about past and current projects. Check out today’s episode to hear all the details! Topics and Questions Discussed: 0:11 – Nader welcome everyone and mentions today’s guest, Catalin Miron! 0:31 – Nader and guest have met through a past conference. 0:54 – The topics of today’s episode is mentioned here. 1:09 – Nader: Can you give us your background, please? 1:15 – Guest gives his background. He talks about React, Swift, Hootsuite, Skype, and other topics. 2:20 – Nader: Do you work for Microsoft? 2:30 – Guest: I have been under the benefits of both because Skype is under Microsoft. 3:01 – Nader: It’s cool because we are using Skype now! 3:29 – Nader: Are you guys using React XP or is it pure React Native? 3:35 – Guest answers. 4:17 – Nader asks questions about features and fixing bugs. 4:38 – Guest: If you need to fix a bug or...definitely you can have time to contribute. 5:47 – Topic summary. Nader: What are some of the problems that people have with animations and React Native? Then let’s go into some practices and tools that can help. 6:09 – Guest answers the question. 7:52 – Nader: What are some of the libraries that people are using? Nader asks other questions, too. 8:31 – Guest: To answer the first question – usually I am using animated API. It’s a super but simple library to help build animations in general. 9:55 – Nader: How would you implement a gradient animation in the first place? And then what kind of combination would you use? 10:23 – Guest answers the question. 11:48 – Nader: What are some of the problems that people are running into in order to implement animation in general? With all of these libraries are people still facing problems? 12:31 – Guest answers the question. 14:06 – Nader: I have a question around iOS and Androids. How have Androids and iOS differ nowadays? 14:32 – Guest answers the question. 15:44 – Nader: You mentioned that you are doing this work through Skype? What animations have you guys been implementing? 15:59 – Guest. 17:41 – Nader: Any talks or anything planned in the future? 17:50 – Guest. 21:34 – Nader: Where can people follow you and hear about your projects? 21:42 – Guest: Twitter & GitHub!22:25 – Nader: Anything else that you want to say? 22:32 – Guest wraps-up with his final thoughts. Links: Guest’s Twitter Guest’s GitHub William Candillon’s Twitter Browniefed Jason Brown’s GitHub Guest’s YouTube Buy Me a Coffee Picks: Nader js Conference Tutorials by Nader Guest JSConf

Christoph Nakazawa, Engineering Manager at Facebook, joins the show to talk about the current state of React Native.

Eli Perkins gives us the down & dirty on Fastlane Tools with React Native. Fastlane is a project that provides an easier way to build and release mobile apps.

The team from Rally Health joins us to talk about what happens when you're finished coding & ready to get your app into your customers hands.

Michael Lynn and Drew Dipalma join us to talk about a new way to manage your data using MongoDB Atlas, a managed database from MongoDB.

Josh Justice joins us to talk about testing React Native. We discuss everything from unit testing, to integration & end-to-end testing.

The team from Facebook Marketplace joins us to talk about the challenges behind building one of the largest React Native apps in production in the world.

Evan Bacons comes on the show to talk about everything from AR Core to Legos on this episode of React Native Radio.

Eric Elliot, the author of Programming JavaScript Applications and Composing Software, joins us to discuss building modern Progroessive Web Apps (PWAs).

The team from Hasura join us to talk about building GraphQL APIs for React Native applications using Hasura & why you may want to use GraphQL for a mobile application.

Christian Falch & Eric Vicenti join the show to discuss in depth Fluid Transitions & React Navigation.

Vladimir Novick joins us to talk about how React & React Native developers can use their existing skillset to begin creating AR & VR Applications.

WatermelonDB is a next-gen database for powerful React and React Native apps. Today we're joined by the author of WatermelonDB, Radek Pietruszewski, to talk about how it works & the benefits of using the database.

Open source guru Krzystof Megiera of Software Mansion joins the show to discuss Reanimated, React Native Screens, & all of the other cool stuff he's been working on.

Gabriel joins us to talk about Flutter, React Native, & hist current work at Tonal.

Jared Forsyth joins us to discuss Reason & how it's being used by developers to build React Native applications.

React Native veteran Eric Vicenti joins the show to talk about how navigation in React Native has change & improved over the years as well as what projects he is currently working on.

Mike Diramid & Elliot Hesp join us to talk about building Firebase apps with React Native

Radoslav Stankov and Vlad Vladimirov join the show to talk about their transition from Native to React Native at Product Hunt

Gant Laborde joins us as the special guest to talk about state management in React.

Erica Cooksey, Software Engineer at Eaze, joins us to talk about their experiences using React Native, it's benefits & tradeoffs of using it in production.

Vladimir joins the show for the first time to talk about building IOT applications as well as his Smarthome Manager React Native package.

Vincent Riemer, the creator of React Native Dom, joins us to discuss the project and talk about the future of React Native.

Gaëtan Renaudeau joins the show to talk about using gl-react, gl-react-native, & webgl.

Tyler Mcginnis joins us to talk about staying up to date with React & the most current React APIs.

The Geeky Ants team comes on and talks about their open source as well as running a consulting company using React Native as their framework of choice.

Jared Palmer joins us to talk about Formik

Max Lynch of Ionic joins us to discuss Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor, React Native & mobile application development in general.

Michel Weststrate joins us again to discuss immutable data with Immer & state management with MobX State Tree.

Ovidiu Chereches talks with us about React Cosmos & React Testing

Zubair Ahmed joins the show for the first time to discuss everything pertaining to Ethereum Development and how React fits into the picture.

The team behind the Full Stack React Native book join us to talk everything React Native!

Mike Grabowski of Callstack as well as Lee Johson & Dave Sibiski of G2i join us to talk about how to get your foot in the door and excel in the current job marketplace as a React or React Native developer.

Wes Bos joins us to discuss learning JavaScript in 2018, what someone should know when pursuing a career in the React ecosystem, and how to go about picking up those skills. We also briefly talk about building an online audience.

Sacha Greif of The State of JavaScript survey & JavaScript Rising Stars Project joins us to talk about JavaScript in 2017, what to expect in 2018, and his GraphQL project VulcanJS

We are joined by Spencer Carli of Handlebar Labs and Mike Grabowski of Callstack join us to discuss the last year in React Native and what to expect in the future.

The talented Orta Therox joins us to discuss everything from open source to ProBot automation in this episode of React Native Radio

Spencer Carli joins us to discuss the current state of navigation in React Native as well as best practices around React Native navigation.

Michael Chudziak and Mike Grabowski of Callstack join us to discuss building Universal React applications, applications that can run in multiple environments with a single code base.

Broadcasting from Microsoft Connect, we talk about Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, and the features that React Native developers can possibly benefit from.

Florian Rival talks about how to bridge Objective-C, Java, and Swift with JavaScript to create native modules in React Native.

With Viro, you can build full featured Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality apps using React Native and JavaScript. In this episode, we talk with Vik Advani, a cofounder of Viro about what Viro is, how it works, and how to get started with the sdk.

Rotem Mizrachi of Wiz joins us to talk about testing React Native in general, how Detox works, and how it fits into the workflow of a React Native testing environment.

Jennifer Van from Capital One talks about scaling React applications as well as how to get into Machine Learning

Naoufal joins us for the second time, this time to discuss accepting payments using his open source React Native Payments library + Apple Pay / Android Pay