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The React Native Paradox

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The History of the Cross-Platform Solution That Worked

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2024
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It Worked on My iPhone 15 Pro Max…

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This talk will focus on the challenges of debugging applications that are live, particularly when you receive nebulous user feedback, and an error is something in the backend that is hard to discover through traditional reproduction.

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2024
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Optimizing With Static Hermes

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A walk through the Static Hermes optimizer, describing how it takes advantage of static type information to improve performance.

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2024
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The Efficient Path To Design System Implementation in Large React Native Applications

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Learn how Hinge Health efficiently integrated a large-scale design system, Heal, into their extensive React Native codebase, utilizing a component library, custom analyzer tool, and extensive refactoring to ensure compatibility and streamline development.

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2024
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Greenfield of Dreams

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How Chain React saved our app.

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2024
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No App Center? No Problem! Build and Deploy Your React Native Apps With GitHub Actions

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In this talk we'll dive into how teams can migrate their processes of building and deploying their React Native applications from App Center to GitHub Actions.

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2024
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Adopting Expo Prebuild at Coinbase

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In this lightning talk we'll explore the benefits of Expo Prebuild, especially with large scale apps, and strategies on how to adopt a tool like this while keeping product engineers unblocked.

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2024
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How To Make a React Native Windows App With a macOS Machine

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2024
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3D Experiences in React Native With Expo-GL

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Learn how to easily build 3D experiences for web and mobile apps using React Native, Expo-GL, and React Three Fiber, with a focus on performance and cross-platform compatibility, even for beginners.

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2024
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Unlocking Hidden Data: RUM for Effective App Optimization and Decision Making

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Explore how to effectively gather data to address discrepancies between customer feedback and observed app behavior, and to understand drops in conversion rates. Learn about the implementation of Real User Monitoring (RUM) and metric optimization methods to drive informed product decisions, ensuring your app meets user needs and stays competitive.

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2024
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Optimizing React Native Performance: Strategies for Incremental Improvements

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A deep dive on how to make React Native apps incrementally more performant without starting over from scratch.

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2024
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Sweetening React Native Development With Ignite

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Discover how Infinite Red's Ignite starter kit, refined through years of React Native experience, can simplify your app development process and invite you to join their collaborative community.

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2024
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Default to Consistent

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Discover how reducing decision fatigue through consistent tooling and code conventions in React development can improve team velocity and focus on significant problems, while also exploring the benefits and downsides of this approach.

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2024
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React Native for Desktop in Microsoft Word

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Discover how Microsoft brought an existing premium feature from the Word Web App into Word Desktop Apps with the help of React Native for Windows and macOS. Join us to learn how React Native can empower your own new or existing native desktop applications.

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2024
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// TODO // FIXME: Real Strategies To Modernize a Legacy React Native Project

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Discover practical strategies for improving a legacy React Native codebase, covering topics like converting to TypeScript, updating testing tools, integrating design systems, migrating to monorepos, and managing tech debt, all based on years of experience with complex projects.

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2024
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Visualizing the Impact of React Native’s New Architecture

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Examine the real-life user experience differences between old and new app architectures, based on findings from testing both on a low-end Android device.

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2024
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React Native Panel 2024

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Join us at Chain React for a fun and engaging panel with folks from Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Expo. We’ll dive into cool ways they’re using React Native, tackle some big challenges, and share tips on performance and user experience. Hear about the future of React Native and its impact across different fields. Don’t miss out on expert insights and stories on how React Native is pushing boundaries and bringing teams together.

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2024
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Microinteractions: The Little Big Things

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Explore the design of microinteractions in React Native applications, learning key principles and actionable techniques to enhance user experience with timing, animations, and transitions using React Native Reanimated and Gesture Handler.

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2024
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Stability First: Building React Native Apps That Scale

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Learn critical strategies for prioritizing stability in React Native development, ensuring a balanced approach that enhances both the developer experience and user satisfaction as your app grows in complexity and scale.

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2024
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Being a Good Platform Citizen

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Your users can tell when your app doesn't feel native. Is it because you're writing it in React Native? No, it's a skill issue. So what does "native feel" even mean and how can you practice being a good platform citizen while building cross-platform? Let's find out.

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2024
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Build a React Native App for TV in 15 minutes

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Learn how to optimize your React Native mobile app into a great experience for TVs and within 15 minutes get started from scratch with an app running on streaming media devices!

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2024
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React Native Local First Semantic Search (How To Run AI Locally)

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Get Local First AI going in a React Native application as we walk through building a high quality semantic search using vectors, embeddings, a local high performance AI model, and more. You'll not only get the code, but the concepts as well!

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2024
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2024

React Native Essentials

Dive into the fundamentals of React Native, from initializing applications to exploring native libraries, and discuss intermediate topics to help React developers transition seamlessly into mobile development.

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2024

Navigating the Last Mobile Mile

Explore the "last mobile mile" to make your React Native app feel native on iOS and Android, covering font scaling, dark mode theming, accessibility, keyboard interactions, home screen widgets, and more, while leveraging Expo Modules API and Config Plugins.

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2024

Mastering Native Code

Elevate your React Native development skills by gaining hands-on experience in native development, covering language basics (Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin), native linking, and building native modules to confidently contribute to native projects.

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Vlad Novick