Issue 20: ☃️ Back From Break ❄️
Understanding Flex, Recreating Facebook Chat Bubbles Animation, Improving GraphQL Performance, and more
Weekly Update
We’re back from winter break and getting back to working with code after not committing anything for a few weeks. I’m always surprised how energized and full of ideas I feel after taking time off. It’s a good reminder to take rest and to do it often! Have a great week. ✌🏻
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Around the Web
Great post from Andi Gu on recreating the chat bubbles animation effect from the Facebook app in React Native.
Excellent article for all React Native devs on common Flexbox recipes from Navdeep Singh Bedi.
Didn’t know about these StyleSheet helpers, from Asa Miller.
Incredible post from Zohar Levin on creating a header scrolling animation using scroll position in React Native.
Learn how to set environment variables for specific release channels in Expo from Peter Piekarczyk.
Open Source
Nice example project using the Github API to display trending projects in React Native.
Add custom items to the React Native dev menu.
App Loading component that shows an expanding image as a mask when your app loads.
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GraphQL
Learn how to improve the performance of your Apollo GraphQL queries with automatic persisted queries from Tim Hingston.
Cache persistence for Apollo 2.0! 👏🏻 Learn about it here from James Reggio.
Redux
I’ve become interested in blockchain technology recently and I found this post from Swizec Teller to be an awesome concept on a blockchain based Redux implementation. 🤓
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