Chain React 2024
2024-07-17..2024-07-19
Portland, OR, United States
[Chain React 2017, Chain React 2018, Chain React 2023, Chain React 2024, Chain React 2026]
who it's for
React Native developers, mobile app engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, library and SDK authors, quality and stability engineers, accessibility engineers
topics
Static Hermes ahead-of-time compilation; GitHub Actions iOS and Android CI; Expo Prebuild plugin strategy; Ignite starter kit workflows; building Windows apps from macOS; React Native for TV platforms; desktop React Native integrations; startup instrumentation and markers; mobile session replay and tracing; TypeScript with Zod schemas; codemods and code generators; 3D experiences with Expo-GL
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| No App Center? No Problem! | Israa Taha | 13m |
Microsoft retires App Center in March 2025 and the claim is that GitHub Actions can build and deploy React Native iOS and Android apps end to end. The demo… | ||
| Default to Consistent | Colin Gray | 25m |
Argues that strong, opinionated conventions reduce decision fatigue and keep velocity as teams scale, supported by concrete tools and patterns: enforce styles… | ||
| Optimizing With Static Hermes | Neil Dhar | 26m |
A walkthrough of Static Hermes shows a concrete pipeline: a TypeScript ray tracer from Microsoft runs under Hermes interpreted at ~1300 ms per frame, with… | ||
| It Worked on My iPhone 15 Pro Max… | Sarah Guthals, Krystof Woldrich | 26m |
Claims that Sentry now ships session replay for mobile and an annotate react components Metro flag, demos show an iPhone 15 Pro Max reproducing nothing while a… | ||
| Michał Chudziak and Ada Gawrysiak | Michał Chudziak, Ada Gawrysiak | 25m |
Contains specific, actionable results: instrumentation in React Native with Instabug and a Shopify library sets native and JS markers to split startup phases… | ||
| React Native Panel hosted | Eli White, Keith Kurak, Chris Traganos | 57m |
Panel reports concrete wins and pain points: Amazon surfaces 600+ engineers using React Native and even a Kindle running RN on C, Fire TV usage tops 100… | ||
| Stability First: Building React Native Apps That Scale | Tom Targosz | 23m |
Clearcover reports 99.997% crash-free sessions (roughly one crash per 33,000 sessions) and targets five‑9s stability; the stack centers on TypeScript by… | ||
| The React Native Paradox | Gant Laborde | 22m |
History and timeline claim that React Native starts as a 2015 hackathon proof of concept and grows into production tooling used by Meta Amazon Microsoft and… | ||
| Rafael Mendiola & Kyle Rosenberg | Rafael Mendiola, Kyle Rosenberg | 30m |
Hinge Health builds Heal as a separate repo: ~50 React Native components and ~300 design tokens, published as an internal npm package and Figma library, then… | ||
| Adopting Expo Prebuild at Coinbase | Alfonso Curbelo | 09m |
A concrete report on adopting Expo Prebuild at Coinbase: a React Native 0.73 upgrade touches 55 files and ~5,000 lines across ~90 commits, so the team extracts… | ||
| Sweetening React Native Development With Ignite | Robin Heinze | 25m |
Infinite Red’s Ignite starter kit claims to compress the usual three–four week React Native setup into a single workflow: a CLI + boilerplate honed over nine… | ||
| How To Make a React Native Windows App With a macOS Machine | Chiara Mooney | 10m |
Demonstrates that a React Native Windows app can be built and run from macOS by spinning up a Windows VM in under an hour, using Parallels coherence mode to… | ||
| React Native Local First Semantic Search | Jack Herrington | 22m |
Builds a local‑first semantic search inside a React Native app using an on‑device ONNX model from Hugging Face (Snowflake Arctic quantized4), ONNX Runtime… | ||
| React Native for Desktop in Microsoft Word | Shiven Mian, Nikolai Aristo | 32m |
Microsoft brings an existing premium feature into Word Desktop using React Native for Windows and macOS and ships a movable native Copilot pane with theming… | ||
| Real Strategies To Modernize a Legacy React Native Project | Erik Thorelli | 28m |
Practical steps and measurable outcomes appear: convert JS to TS by bulk-renaming files, run JSCodeShift codemods to add explicit anys then enable… | ||
| Build a React Native App for TV in 15 minutes | Eric Fahsl | 25m |
Claims a working React Native TV app can be scaffolded in 15 minutes using Expo TV starter and a spatial focus library, wires up video with Bitmovin player… | ||
| Greenfield of Dreams | Tim Magree, Ian McKain | 10m |
A legacy React Native 0.65 app gets replaced with a greenfield rewrite that produces a fully functional prototype in 10 weeks and targets a production release… | ||
| Optimizing React Native Performance | Summer Knight | 26m |
Shows that React Native startup really is about module loading not just JS size: 78 ms for initialized core, a heavy navigator can add 250 ms before any… | ||
| Visualizing the Impact of React Native’s New Architecture | Belén Carozo | 21m |
Tests use two identical apps differing only by architecture: 0.68 vs 0.74 on a Samsung J3 low-end Android. Findings show app size drops from 84 MB → 73 MB… | ||
| Microinteractions: The Little Big Things | Kacper Kapuściak | 21m |
Covers concrete recipes: uses React Native Reanimated and Gesture Handler to build a rotating compass tab (about six lines of code), a staggered list with… | ||
| Being a Good Platform Citizen | Dan Stepanov | 28m |
Claim: native feel is a skill not a framework; React Native gives access to tools but does not guarantee results. Implementation uses NativeWind and… | ||
| 3D Experiences in React Native With Expo-GL | Perttu Lähteenlahti | 10m |
Shows how an app called Noise renders 3D avatars with Expo-GL and React Three Fiber, reusing web WebGL code on mobile via an OpenGL native layer. Demonstrates… | ||
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