Building a Product with React Native
summary
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 checks. Ships via server-side feature flags and staged A/B rollouts (employees then 5% → 50% splits) and observes that conversions do not reach statistical significance, prompting incremental design rollbacks. Notes practical issues: crashes in production, Sketch-to-code tooling, missing animation specs, and the lesson to change one thing at a time and measure.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:58Building a React Native feature
- 16:31Discovering React Native limitations
- 24:47Testing and iterating the design
- 27:18Q&A and conclusion
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