oh boy, I was so wrong. — Do you remember that weird “You wouldn’t download a car” spot? I saw it so many times at my local cinema during my childhood, and — I have to admit — it always felt odd to me. I mean, stealing a car and downloading a file in my…

Yes, another article like this… or not? — This article is my curated list of articles about this subject. Plus a few rapid-fire thoughts from my experience with this framework (15 months and counting). Why I’m writing it? Because I end up saving this kind of articles all over my internet (GKeep, Medium, Pocket, etc) and when I…

A real world scenario of enhancing performances — These last few days, I had a chance to focus on improving the performances of the React Native app we build in our company: being already on both markets (iOS/Android), the approach I took was mainly JS-focused, in order to be able to deploy the tweaks via Microsoft’s Codepush tool. …

Let the code format itself — A while back, I wrote an article about setting up VSCode to develop React Native projects— in its first section, I briefly listed some of the fundamental tools needed to ensure a smooth writing code experience, basically without explaining what Flow, ESLint or Prettier were. But I always had the…

or: testing, testing, testing — As mentioned in the first episode, around a year ago I was thrown (without prior knowledge of Javascript) into the move-fast-and-break-things world of React Native ⚛️ Being a complete newbie, I banged my head many times into many walls throughout the long journey that took me where I am now…

or: what learn-by-coding taught me — Around 11 months ago, I was just like you. I never developed anything in React Native, nor in Javascript — despite my master degree in computer engineering. I was assigned a big project: to develop a cross-platform mobile app (and its backend) using a framework of choice. “React Native looks…

An opinionated list of extensions to get the most out of it — A while back, one of the most experienced React Native developers I know, Jani Eväkallio, published a great article about all the different tools Formidable started using this last March for a new React Native app. That gave me the inspiration to dive head first into an issue I faced…

A short task list — If you are reading these lines, chances are you will fall into one of two categories: You are a React Native developer, looking for a fast list of resources to send to that new colleague you have to introduce to the framework You are the guy who received the link…

or, my plan to try to be more organized and procrastinate less — I have to admit it, I consider myself among the ranks of the master procrastinators. As Tim Urban in his amazing TED talk explains, this means that if I have two weeks to complete a task, I’ll almost surely wait the last 24 hours to do it.