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React Native Newsletter

This week’s issue features articles about the release of Reanimated v3.0 and the benefits of attending Chain React 2023.

Hello readers! Planning on Chain React this year?
For your consideration, our very own Gant Laborde has written a helpful article about the benefits of attending this amazing conference. 

A top pick item for this issue is SoftwareMansion's announcement of the release of Reanimated v3.0, featuring Shared Element Transitions, which provides smooth animated transitions between screens. Check out their blog post about this exciting release!

There's a lot more to discover in today's issue. Enjoy! 

Message from the editor

This week's React Native news update from Editor-in-chief, Jon Major Condon. Watch on YouTube! 

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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Anouncing Expo Router v1

Expo router v1 has been released, which helps bring the best routing concepts from the web to native iOS/Android apps

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expo-image 1.0 is out!

expo-image 1.0, which been described as the successor to react-native-fast-image, is an image library designed for speed and caching. It provides Fabric compatibility and supports blurhash and more.

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From Hours to Minutes: Making older React Native Apps easy to set up

A well-written blog post talking about how to leverage EAS configuration for a large existing app to help simplify onboarding new devs.

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Convince Your Boss + React Native = Chain React

It's time to get your boss to send you to Portland and enjoy the best React Native conference in the US. Here's the article to convince them.

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Reanimated 3.0 is out!

For those who have used libraries such as the unmaintained https://github.com/IjzerenHein/react-navigation-shared-element  in the past (which wasn't working for the latest version of React Navigation), this reanimated implementation is the replacement.

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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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MovieHut

An app that allows users to check out latest movie trailers and facts about movies.  It utilizes Lottie, React Native Reanimated, and React Native Paper

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React Native module for getting IDFA (iOS) or AAID (Android)

This npm module allows any mobile application built with React Native to access the Advertising ID, following the OS specific definition and user permissions.

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Expo in-app purchases made easy

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use RevenueCat to add in-app purchases and subscriptions. Our open-source framework provides a backend and a wrapper around Apple's StoreKit and Google Play Billing to make implementing in-app purchases and subscriptions easy.

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React Native Graph

This is a new graphing library using React Native Skia instead of svg

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React Native Replicache

 This provides React Native bindings for Replicache, a JavaScript framework for building high-performance, offline-capable, collaborative web apps

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RNR 261 - What’s the deal with EAS?

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Editor-in-chief: Jon Major Condon, Infinite Red

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