React Native Tag

One of the hottest JavaScript libraries out there right now is React. Whilst there are many good reasons for React being so popular, the main reason my team picked React for our new project is because of the commonality between React and React Native. The concepts and the language are the same, so if you can write React, then you can write React Native. There is also the benefit of being able put both in the same project and then share business logic between them, which is precisely what we need to be able to do.

There are a number of ambitious projects out there that aim to eliminate duplication between platforms by using a common set of React primitives. react-native-web, ReactXP and react-primitives spring to mind. However, these rely on not only a common set of components, but also a common approach to things like styling and animations.

Whilst we wait for the dust to settle on which is the best generic solution to use, my team has come up a simple approach that extends upon a pattern that is already quite well known in the React community. In this post I'll outline this approach.

14 June, 2017 /

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EDIT: The initial version of this post stated that the TypeScript compiler won't emit code if it finds errors in the source. This is not correct. By default, the compiler will emit code even if it detects errors, unless the --noEmitOnError flag has been set. This post has been updated accordingly. I've recently been working on a project that uses TypeScript. I also have been playing with Flow on a personal project. In this post I want to talk about why I think these tools are important, some of the fundamental differences between them, and why the choice of which one to use might best be determined by the broader toolchain that you are working within, rather than just the particular technical merits of one or the other.
05 January, 2017 /

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Shine is super proud to announce that senior consultant Ben Teese (@benteese) will be speaking at the YOW! Conference being held in Melbourne on the 3rd and 4th of December 2015. Ben will actually be co-presenting this one with Sam Ritchie (@FakeSamRitchie), an iOS developer from Perth. Sam will be talking about ReactiveCocoa,...

26 October, 2015 /

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yowconnected Last week I had the privilege of attending the YOW! Connected conference in Melbourne, Australia. YOW! Connected offers a look at all the interesting things that are happening in the mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) space, from the perspective of both software developers and UX designers. On the mobile front it included a variety of talks relating to both the iOS and Android platforms and yes, even a little bit of Windows. In general all the talks that I went to were pretty good,  but here I will write about a few that particularly interested me.
24 September, 2015 /

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