Ready for the ❄️ weather

Issue 17: ❄️ Winter is Coming 🐺

Simple Android Releases, Sharing Code Between React and React Native, Banning Default Exports, and more!

Weekly Update

We’re still feasting on leftovers from Thanksgiving here in the States and are having a tough time looking down this week. But we really enjoyed our Holiday with friends and family and we’re looking forward to more of that in the coming months. Hope you did the same and have a great week!

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Around the Web

• Simple React Native Android Releases

Learn how to release your app on the Google Play store with another great tutorial from Gant Laborde.

• Debugging React Native and Redux with React Native Debugger

Nice post here from Gunnari Auvinen on how to debug React Native and Redux with React Native Debugger.

• Polyline Sorcery With React Native

Learn how to create a polyline with react-native-maps with this article from Ravish Rawal.

• How We’re Sharing Code Between React and React Native

Nice writeup here from Robert Vogt on how his team shares code between React Native and React.

• Setup Continuous Integration with React Native

Another great post from Spencer Carli on how to get up and running with Visual Studio’s App Center.

Open Source

• react-native-size-matters

Interesting scaling method and utility for developing apps across a variety of size targets.

• react-native-speach-text

Module for speech to text in React Native.

Frameworks

React Navigation Beta 20

React Navigation released Beta 20 this week with the following highlights:

• Upgraded to React Native 0.50 and Flow 0.56 and have begun exporting full type definitions
• Custom headers and back buttons now receive props from React Navigation
• TabBarBottom now accepts styling options
• Transition configurations between tabs

JavaScript

• Why we have banned default exports in Javascript and you should do the same

Great post here from Krzysztof Kaczor on removing default exports from your modules and why. Definitely food for thought. 🍗

Sponsored

React Native Themes from Strap UI

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Redux

• The most unknown redux performance trick

Learn how to optimize your Redux store with the areStatesEqual option in this post from Julien De Luca.

• Namespacing Actions for Redux

Nice pattern here from Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo on the how and why to namespace Redux actions to make sense of that boilerplate.

Design

• How to Conduct Usability Testing Easily & Quickly

Learn how your users use your product and why with Usability Testing, outlined in this great post from Amy Smith.

• Creative Motion: 12 Concepts of Interface Animation.

12 awesome interface animation concepts.

Sponsorship

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