Welcome to Issue 165 of the React Native Newsletter!
We're back from the holidays and ready for 2023 with a new design that makes it easier to scan for the React Native (and React Native-related) content that you seek. We've also shrunk the newsletter file size so it loads faster. Please let us know what you think! Your feedback matters, as it will help us tweak the layout and design in future issues.
The featured Top Picks for this issue are two items about Maestro: an article about how to use it to write e2e tests for your React Native apps, and a Tweet that introduces Maestro Studio, which is a tool that makes it easier to find your UI elements when writing your tests.
Enjoy!
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Our top React Native picks this week
React Native articles, tweets, and docs from submitted by the community and Infinite Red’s team of engineers.
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Concerned that react-native-fast-image is no longer maintained? Check out this Tweet and its thread, which is all about the upcoming expo-image module. An experimental, incomplete, and undocumented version was made available here 7 days ago. It's far from ready for use in a production app and it isn't available in the managed workflow yet, but it looks very promising.
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This article, which offers practical techniques for working with Github CoPilot to improve your productivity, uses React Native code examples throughout.
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Check out this Tweet about Maestro Studio - a helpful visual tool for finding your UI elements when writing e2e tests with Maestro.
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This article is a great overview of Maestro, which is a framework for writing e2e tests that works well for React Native app development.
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Open source highlights from the React Native community
Open source React Native projects, libraries, node modules, or components submitted by the community.
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Abacus is a React Native iOS implementation of Firefly III, a free and open source personal finance manager. It's built on Expo SDK 47, uses Redux for state management, and makes use of Native Base for the UI.
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This is a cross-platform toast/alert component powered by native elements.
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