Brains & Beards Show

BBS 5: React Native Libraries that We Recommend

Episode Summary

Today we discouse how the backbones of our projects looks like. Are you curious what are the most helpful libraries we are using in 90% of our work? How to set up Typescript in your project the right way? Tune in for our top picks ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Episode Notes

We share some of the libraries we often use in our React Native projects. In no particular order that would be:

• React & Redux in TypeScript - Complete Guide: https://github.com/piotrwitek/react-redux-typescript-guide
• A CLI tool to run multiple npm-scripts in parallel or sequential: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-run-all
• React Native Animated Code Input: https://github.com/brains-and-beards/react-native-animated-code-input
• A splash screen API for react-native which can programatically hide and show the splash screen: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-splash-screen
• OTA updates through App Center CodePush: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/distribution/codepush/
• Error Reporting with Sentry for React Native: https://sentry.io/for/react-native/
• react-native-svg: https://github.com/react-native-svg/react-native-svg
• redux-saga: https://redux-saga.js.org/
• React Native testing utilities that encourage good testing practices: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@testing-library/react-native

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