Reasons to give React Native a(nother) try

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Three years in, React Native shows concrete progress: an easy web playground and editor workflow via Expo snack in-browser editor, a rich ecosystem with thousands of libraries and curated native directory entries, production apps at Bloomberg Skype Discord and startups like Gyroscope and Third Wave, and deploy conveniences like over-the-air updates via CodePush and Expo. Gesture and animation subsystems hit native-feel performance — experiments sustain 60fps gestures offloaded to the UI thread rather than vague promises.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:3210 reasons you should try React Native again 3 years and 2 days later
3. 0:56Initial hype & inevitable disappointment
4. 1:45But before we move on... What is this thing?
5. 7:18Perfect for your next hobby or hack-day project
6. 9:42"Production ready"
7. 11:16Developer tools and editor integrations are getting much better
8. 12:37Growing ecosystem of services
9. 13:49Over the air updates for apps in the App Store and Play Store
10. 15:15Web and code sharing story is getting a lot better
11. 17:55Powerful gesture and animation APIs
12. 22:11Plenty of learning resources, improved documentation

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