Sneak Preivew of React Native

This is the talk I gave on Mar. 5 at Taipei Javascript meetup on react native with quick live demos.

Later it was revised and presented at JS geeks meetup on Mar. 12.

and later heavily revised again and presented on Mar. 18 at reactjs.tw group meetup.

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1. Sneak Preivew of React Native
2. Jeremy Lu @thecat | jeremy@pubulous.com Founder, builder and instructor, FullStackRocks.com
3. Announced at React Conf @ FB HQ Jan. 28-29, 2015
6. Goal? Build native iOS/Android apps using React
7. Current Status - Currently in private beta - Will be publicly available on Github
8. Platform supported? - iOS - Android - More to come…
9. Battle Tested? - Facebook Groups App - Facebook Ad. Manager App In short, Facebook is dog fooding itself
11. Native UI No WebView No HTML 60fps at all times Buttery smooth responsiveness
12. <LiveView /> <ListView dataSource={this.state.dataSource} onEndReached={this.onEndReached} automaticallyAdjustContentInsets={false} showsVerticalScrollIndicator={false} />
15. UI controls View, ListView, TextInput, ActivityIndicatorIOS … and a couple dozens to come
16. Flexbox for Layout - Flexbox reimplemented in JS/iOS/Android - github.com/facebook/css-layout searchBar: { marginTop: 64, flexDirection: 'row', alignItems: 'center', },
17. System Capabilities Camera Contact GPS Apple Pay HealthKit …via plugins
18. Dev process write, save, refresh
19. Debugging red screen of errors click error message to jump to source →DEMO
21. Logging Console.log() for now DevTools support on the way
24. Learn once, write anywhere
25. Learn once, write anywhere Learn once, write anywhere Learn once, write anywhere
26. Same approach VDOM, JSX, Flux… Different drawing backend ios/android/canvas/webgl…
28. Flipboard on mobile
29. Flipboard on mobile Phil Lynott, Bono, Enya
30. Learn one skill and build everywhere SEO | Full-stack app | Front-end SPA | Android | iOS
31. Aim for the best user experience Achieve top notch UI performance
32. Brand new paradigm up front
33. Caveat? Won’t be 1st class citizen But it’s good enough most of the times
34. @thecat | jeremy@pubulous.com Founder, builder and instructor, FullStackRocks.com Questions?