Tips for Building Successful React Native Apps

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Simulators hide platform bugs; testing on real devices across many Android models reveals crashes and performance regressions. The native stack navigation performs better, caching via polo client reduces requests and simplifies query updates, and FlatList or Shopify's flash list handles big lists. Removing debug output with a Babel plugin to remove console logs prevents JS-thread bottlenecks. Debugging uses flipper for network, logs and DB inspection.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:34Testing on real devices
3. 2:36Web vs React Native styling
4. 3:40Navigation libraries
5. 4:41Performance on slow networks
6. 6:07Removing console logs
7. 7:10Optimizing large lists
8. 8:17Handling offline mode
9. 9:44Debugging with Flipper

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