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Edoardo Moreni
I like beautiful things.

React Native Freelancer

In the last few months, I have stumbled across people asking me the same question: “What are you up to after Uni?”. I usually say “I’ll be unemployed or make millions by sitting on a couch and eating Nutella”. It’s a stupid answer, but they are all expecting me to say I have found some fancy job, which I really don’t want.

On the other hand, I am looking for people who want to work with React Native, a Javascript framework released by Facebook more than a year ago. This technology enables developers to write apps 2x faster and reaches a 80% of code reuse between Android and iOS (and this is just the beginning, we’ll get to 90% or even more). The beauty of RN is the ability to render two native apps, on two different mobile operating systems, with pretty much the same code.

It gets even more interesting when you realise Javascript can communicate with Native code whether you are using Java, Objective-C or Swift; this means if there is something missing, you can write it natively and use it in your React Native app. The amount of code produced by the open source community is immense and we are getting to a stage where you can find pretty much everything you need on npm.

I registered the domain name http://reactnativeapps.com in July 2015. I was surprised to see it was available and buying it seemed the right thing to do. A year later, I have found myself with 3 React Native apps shipped on the iOS and Android app stores, 2 RN apps that have won Hackathons (Tech Crunch Disrupt and Realex Payments FinTech Party) and two more apps that are coming in the next two months.

I do have clients in three continents (Asia, Europe and US) and I am taking more seriously the domain name I bought a year ago. I will be developing React Native apps for as long as I want, can and need. I used to develop in Android and I am getting comfortable in Objective-C, so integrating these two skill sets with Javascript leads to a React Native developer.

If you are willing to migrate your current iOS/Android apps to a single code base, which can be updated faster, whose releases don’t have to go through Apple’s approval (AppHub.io), you should definitely get in touch. This also applies to everyone who needs a mobile presence. There is no need to go in two different churches anymore (if you aren’t doing anything really specific, such as a game), because there is a better one, called React Native.

I am happy to talk, have coffees, lunches and even dinners with anyone who’s interested in taking a step towards this technology.

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ps: Facebook uses React Native in the Events Page on your iOS app. It’s also used in the Facebook Groups app and also the Ads’ Manager one, which is entirely written in RN.