Things you should do as React-Native Developer

React Native

React Native(RN) community has evolved a lot since 2015 from version 0.1.0 to 0.62.2. They do a lot of breaking changes in their major releases and on top of that Google, does the rest. With so much change going on, it’s crucial to catch up with the community’s pace. This blog contains resources and techniques which will keep you in parallel with the RN community and never let you feel the pain of your codebase not being able to build for days.

In this blog, I will try to answer the questions that RN developers face very often and a lot of people have asked me numerous times.

How to keep your libraries updated?

RN underline uses React, so every component you write is actually imported from React underline library. React also keep evolving with new functions coming in, better ways of writing components, and deprecating lifecycle methods that cause problems. Very soon they are going to switch to React version 17.0 from 16.13 which is a significant change and your often used lifecycle methods like componentWillMount, componentWillReceiveProps, etc. will be deprecated. This gives you a head start from where you should start updating your libraries.

(i) Android libraries Upgrade: RN project uses lots of google support libraries for android which you can check in android/build.gradle. They are…