Parashuram N

React Native is a great way to build native apps for iOS, Android and other mobile platforms. In this talk, we will look at the internals of React Native, and how code written in JavaScript can power a fully native mobile application. We will look at the various parts of the current system like the bridge, the UI manager and the plugins. We will also touch upon the rendering process and compare it to React’s rendering on the web.

We will look at some of the new and exciting improvements (like Fabric, TurboModules and JSI) and talk about how they significantly improve React Native. This talk stems from my experiences as a web-developer newbie on the React Native team, and is an attempt to document my journey in comprehending the code base. At the end of the talk, the attendees will not only be able to build React Native apps, but also understands how it all works together.

2019

React Amsterdam

Building React Native

React Native is a great way to build native apps for iOS, Android and other mobile platforms. In this talk, we will look at the internals of React Native, and how code written in JavaScript can power a fully native mobile application. We will look at the various parts of the system like the bridge, the UI manager and the plugins. We will also touch upon the rendering process and compare it to React's rendering on the web. We will look at some of the new and exciting improvements powered by Fiber, and talk about the the interesting experiments and upcoming features.

This talk stems from my experiences as a web-developer newbie on the React Native team, and is an attempt to document my journey in comprehending the code base. At the end of the talk, the attendees will not only be able to build React Native apps, but also understands how it all works together.

2018

ReactNext

React Conf

React Native's New Architecture

Reactathon

Day 2 Keynote

Code Push for React Native brings web like release agility to mobile apps by enabling developers to update apps instantly. 

This talk will cover the next iteration of Code Push and how it fits into a complete suite of DevOps services built for called Mobile Center, built for React Native.

2017

Web Like Release Agility for React Native Apps

Web Like Development and Release Agility for React Native

React is fast, really fast, thanks to its virtual DOM. However, React does perform a lot of expensive computations on the main UI thread.

The only semblance of a separate thread is a web worker - a feature from the HTML5 hype-era; often used to perform artificial image manipulations in fancy demos.

In this talk, we will look at ways create a web worker based renderer for React, and analytically compare its performance to a normal react operation. We will also explore the limitations of this approach and see how we can use this in our existing applications.

2016

React Rally

Rise of the Web Workers

React Native brought the web's enviable debug cycle to mobile, without needing to sacrifice native UI to get there. While this makes for an amazing dev experience, your apps are still ultimately distributed through stores, and therefore, can’t immediately take advantage of the same release agility that is typically associated with web dev. But that doesn't have to be the case!

Whether you are doing distributions within your team, amongst your clients or to your entire consumer base, getting improvements out to users as quickly as possible, and monitoring its impact on usage/satisfaction, can be critical to success. This talk will show how easy it can be to setup an automated build pipeline and release continous app deployments via services like VSTS, HockeyApp and CodePush.