Programmers are frequently afflicted with what I call “there must be a better way” (TeMBaW) syndrome. TeMBaW frequently occurs when you successfully accomplish something new to you. However, after that initial sense of accomplishment, some nagging details start rearing their head like that tickling scratchiness in the back of your…

Introduction

This post is a continuation and improvement of the techniques discussed in a previous post. In that article, I described a technique that combined Expo’s ease of development, Webpack’s packaging capability, Gulp’s task automation, and React Native’s WebView component in order to covert an UI oriented JavaScript library into React…

Introduction

This post is a continuation and improvement of the techniques discussed in a previous post. In that article, I described a technique that combined Expo’s ease of development, Webpack’s packaging capability, Gulp’s task automation, and React Native’s WebView component in order to covert an UI oriented JavaScript library into React…

If you’ve read my previous posts, you’ve probably gathered that I’m working on some sort of side project. Hopefully, I will get to the point that I’m ready to release my creation, but for now I’ve been content to adjust and tweak as needed. …

If you’ve read my previous posts, you’ve probably gathered that I’m working on some sort of side-project. Hopefully, I will get to the point that I’m ready to release my creation, but for now I’ve been content to adjust and tweak as needed. …

May 2018 Update

Now that I have learned more about using React Native and creating friendlier NPM packages, I’ve made some significant updates to the package detailed in this article.

The package is now called react-audio-player-recorder-no-linking. I chose this new name to emphasize that it includes separate Recorder and Player components vice just…

A Quill.js Component for React-Native Applications with no Native Code

Introduction

In the process of finding a text editor capable of creating richly styled text for one of my projects, I stumbled upon Quill.js, “… a modern rich text editor built for compatibility and extensibility”. Based on this statement, it seemed…

Background

This is the fourth and final article in a series of posts about integrating Braintree payments into a JavaScript only (no native code) React Native mobile application. The GitHub repository for this project is located here.

Additionally, this project is available as the react-native-webview-braintree npm package for you to…