Instagram Style Double Tap with React Native

There are a host of ways to detect a tap in React Native — but how do you detect a double tap? Detecting double taps has a host of uses — like liking a picture, causing a scroll to top in a tab, etc. Let’s set up double tap detection.

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Spencer Carli in Handlebar Labs

Jul 24, 2018

Intro to Gestures in React Native

In this tutorial we’ll be learning to add gesture handling to a React Native app via PanResponder. In a previous tutorial I walked through building a basic JavaScript based navigator for React Native which will serve as the basis of this tutorial.

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Spencer Carli in Handlebar Labs

Mar 21, 2018

4 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Push Notification Provider for a React Native App

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Spencer Carli in Handlebar Labs

Mar 7, 2018

How 💩 dad jokes helped me better understand immutable data

I recently started working on a course regarding React Native and push notifications (how to, strategy, etc.).

With that, I had to put together an example app — I decided on an app that will show you…

Spencer Carli in Handlebar Labs

Nov 14, 2017

How to Create Tech Tutorials

People often ask me how I write tech tutorials. I’ve given partial answers time and time again, but I wanted to cover it all at once so that you know what I typically put into a tutorial and how you can plan one out.

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Spencer Carli in Handlebar Labs

Nov 13, 2017