React Native EU 2017
2017-09-06..2017-09-07
Wroclaw, Poland
[React Native EU 2017, React Native EU 2018, React Native EU 2020, React Native EU 2022]
as the organisers put it
Explore talks from React Native EU 2017, insights on performance, native modules, and scaling apps.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to | Mike Grabowski | 06m |
Conference opens by stating React Native has been stable for more than two years and already drives a platform-agnostic JavaScript approach, attracting… | ||
| Rapid React Native | Gant Laborde | 25m |
Shows how the Ignite CLI scaffolds real React Native apps (generators for screens, FlatList grids, navigation), ties into Reactotron for state inspection, and… | ||
| React Native, The Native Bits | Emil Sjölander | 30m |
React Native converts JSX into an imperative stream of UI manager commands, builds a mutable Java shadow tree, mirrors that into native C with Yoga, and then… | ||
| When “Good Enough” - Just Isn’t Good Enough | Jani Eväkallio | 29m |
Claims that React Native can match native feel if teams invest in platform-specific craft, not just reuse web habits. Provides a concrete win… | ||
| Building of Snack The React Native Playground | Satyajit Sahoo | 29m |
Snack runs full React Native apps from a browser editor and an Expo runtime app, providing zero setup preview on device by sending edited JS over a pub/sub… | ||
| Going Over The Speed Limit Synchronous Rendering in React Native | Tal Kol | 32m |
Proposes adding synchronous rendering to React Native by recording a native “recipe” at app init and replaying it natively to avoid bridge roundtrips… | ||
| Building native modules for React Native | Florian Rival | 25m |
Built and published a real module, react-native-image-resizer, that resizes large photos using native iOS and Android APIs; shows bootstrapping options… | ||
| React Native and Badoo story of a massive experiment | Guillermo Orellana | 08m |
Badoo tests whether React Native can replace multiple native stacks to run fast A/B experiments across 119 languages and hundreds of millions of users… | ||
| Scaffolding plugins for React Native | Johannes Stein | 09m |
A CLI called react-native-create-library generates a publishable native-plugin scaffold with Android, iOS and Windows folders, package.json and README so npm… | ||
| What is RNRF (react-native-router-flux)? | Pavlo Aksonov | 14m |
RNRF v4 presents a concrete navigation API that sits on top of ReactNavigation and MobX, preserves the same public API across underlying navigator… | ||
| Introducing the React Native Builder | Sanket Sahu | 09m |
Builder X is a design tool that saves designs as outputs React Native JavaScript files so designers and developers share one repo. It generates reusable… | ||
| How Skyscanner Tests RN Bridges on iOS | Yoel Gluschnaider | 09m |
Skyscanner adapts Facebook’s RN test runner to run each bridge test independently by passing initial parameters (test method name, mock preconditions, and… | ||
| Composable Native APIs | André Staltz | 29m |
Argues that Cycle.js–style streams plus small drivers layer make native React Native APIs declarative, moving imperative calls (vibrate, toasts, status bar… | ||
| React developer? How are your production skills? | Michael Haberman | 25m |
Covers concrete fixes for shipping React apps: use cache busting with hashed filenames (examples use 8‑char hashes) so 304s don’t serve old bundles; build… | ||
| Reasonable React Native | Ken Wheeler | 33m |
Shows how to write React Native with ReasonML using BuckleScript to compile to readable, often faster JavaScript, with typed bindings like BS React Native and… | ||
| Practical hacks for delightful interactions | Eric Vlad Vicenti | 23m |
A live photo viewer implements a shared‑element “third element” transition that runs smoothly even on a $50 Android and a four‑year iPhone. It wires Animated +… | ||
| Cross Platform & Beyond | Nader Dabit | 39m |
Survey of concrete cross‑platform options with hands‑on results: Apple TV support is already in the RN template and runs by switching targets… | ||
| Integrating React Native into an existing native codebase | Eloy Durán | 24m |
Artsy adopts React Native into an existing Objective-C/Swift codebase by packaging JavaScript and native glue as Emission as a CocoaPod that Eigen consumes… | ||
| Building a Product with React Native | Martin Konicek | 27m |
Rebuilds the Facebook “boost post” flow by replacing a slow webview with React Native UI, fetching data with GraphQL/Relay and using Nuclide/Flow for type… | ||
| Network layer in React Native | Alexey Kureev | 21m |
Explains that React Native exposes XHR, fetch (polyfilled on top of XHR), and WebSocket, notes fetch inherits XHR limits, and shows debugging options: TCP… | ||
| Getting into Physical web with React of Things | Vladimir Novick | 30m |
Shows how React Native apps actually talk to Bluetooth Low Energy devices: scanning Eddystone URL broadcasts and iBeacon major/minor proximity to map physical… | ||
| Scaling Mobile Development with React Native | Aaron Greenwald | 32m |
Wix builds a single mobile app with over 40+ developers spread across product teams by enforcing modular code, a tiny core “one app” host and per-feature… | ||
| Offline first applications in React Native done well | Adrien Thiery | 28m |
Explains concrete patterns: store user and uploads locally first, show optimistic UI for image uploads, and keep a persistent action queue that retries on… | ||
| React Native Payments Bringing the Payment Request API to React Native | Naoufal Kadhom | 27m |
Library brings the W3C Payment Request API into React Native as a polyfill plus native bridges, enabling Apple Pay token, Android Pay token, or basic card… | ||
| Automate your React Native world with fastlane | Philippe Trepanier | 24m |
Fastlane automates building, signing, screenshotting and publishing React Native apps so the pipeline actually runs end‑to‑end: use match, gym, pilot… | ||
| Q&A Session | Tal Kol, Eric Vlad Vicenti, André Staltz, Ville Immonen | 51m |
Anecdotes and concrete fixes dominate: a migration bug on a multi‑million‑user app signs out ~95% and puts 5% into an App‑Store‑update boot loop, prompting an… | ||
| Thank you! | 02m | |
Short closing that thanks attendees and organizers, credits Callstack and the backstage crew, and explains the conference was built to bring the React Native… | ||
| Backstage Interviews | Eloy Durán, Ken Wheeler, Martin Konicek, Tal Kol, Naoufal Kadhom, Mike Grabowski | 13m |
Flagship app migration moves an old Objective-C codebase to React Native to improve developer experience, enable cross‑platform features and shared UI, and… | ||
| The Movie | Mike Grabowski | 03m |
React Native EU 2017 conference took place on September 6-7th in Wroclaw, Poland, as the first conference in Europe focused exclusively on React Native. It was… | ||
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