The Bull Pen

Switching over to Yarn has shaved minutes off our build times on even modest apps but more than that the Yarn.lock lockfile ensures that any sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub dependencies won’t break our builds and block our deployments.

Official websocket support landed in React Native core in October. If you want to use socket.io with React Native you need to hack around socket.io a bit because the client was originally built for the browser, and since the React Native runtime…