Adopting TypeScript in an established codebase is a big task that takes a long time, but it doesn’t have to be painful. Other companies have documented their conversion process (Sentry comes to mind), but the process I describe here is a little different—you could call it “lazy adoption”, because it…
A deep dive into the inner workings of a seemingly-impossible hook
When a react context updates, all components that use that context also update. This would cause huge performance issues if all components with react-redux’s useSelector re-rendered each time any part of the redux store changed. …
If you’ve dabbled in functional programming or a state management tool like Redux, you’ve probably encountered the concept of the reducer function. In fact, if you’re like me, you were clobbered by references to reducers to the point that the word began to lose all meaning.
Let’s zoom out a…
Note: This is part 5 in a series on React Navigation. Check out my posts on Getting Up and Running, Styling Navigators, an introduction to Stack, Tab, and Drawer Navigators, and Custom Transition Animations.
React Navigation’s default routing behavior works perfectly for many mobile apps, but sometimes you need more…
Note: This is part 4 in a series on React Navigation. Check out my posts on Getting Up and Running, Styling Navigators, an introduction to Stack, Tab, and Drawer Navigators, and Connecting React Navigation to Redux.
React Navigation makes it relatively simple to style navigators, but what if we want…
This is Part III of a series on React Navigation. If you’ve never used this library before, check out my other posts: Up and Running and Styling Navigators, Custom Transition Animations, and Redux Integration.
When you navigate around within your app, does it naturally flow from screen to screen, or…
Note: This is Part 2 in a series on React Navigation. Check out my other posts on Getting Up and Running, Stack, Tab, and Drawer Navigators, Custom Transition Animations, and Redux Integration.
Let’s talk about style.
Out of the box, React Navigation feels a little bland. We can change that…
Note: This post is adapted from a talk I gave at the React Native Los Angeles meetup in April 2017. Find my code and slides here.
If you’re building your first React Native app (or second, or tenth), you’ve most likely hit some hiccups while wiring up your navigation. Navigation…
