React Native Institute

React Native — a gotcha with fetch()

Have you ever got stuck when working with fetch() and for some reason keep getting errors when trying to pull data in from a third party API? Even though you followed that tutorial you were working through exactly as the author wrote it? I got stuck on this…

Why companies should consider React Native

I’ve spent the last 12 months working with our corporate mobile team delivering mobile apps for both IOS and Android. The one question that constantly comes up when approaching leadership for funding is “why do we have to double the project cost and build…

React Native Conference App

For those attending Chain React in Portland July 10-July 11, you definitely want to get the conference app.

VS Code — how to create snippets to speed up your React Native development

After going through a couple tutorials and trying a few things on my own, I quickly realized there’s a lot of code repetition when creating react native apps. The majority of components I write all have…

How to use Git with React Native

(for Mac users)

1. While in your root directory, use terminal to create your react native project.

$ react-native init gittest

Here’s a great short tutorial…

Dragos Holban from IntelligentBee.com has created a very nice short tutorial to get you started with…

Quick Tip: listing all your globally installed NPM packages

While learning react native I’ve tried out a bunch of packages, many of which I installed globally. I found myself at the point where I couldn’t remember what all npm packages were globally installed.