Vincent Riemer

React Native took the world by storm with its decoupled approach to connecting Native and JavaScript code, but most code written for it is designed to assume the existence of only two platforms: iOS and Android.

In this talk, we'll do a deep dive into how React Native and Metro goes about resolving platform specific code, common patterns for separating platform-specific code, and look at those same patterns from the perspective of a platform developer to see how we can make them more resilient to new & upcoming platforms.

2018

React Day Berlin

Designing React Native Modules For Every Platform

You don’t go building something like React Native DOM without anticipating a few bruises along the way. Most of its development was a loop of hitting roadblocks and finding “creative” solutions around them. 

In this talk I’ll highlight some of of the largest roadblocks faced in React Native DOM’s development and the (occasionally absurd) solutions it took to overcome them such as Image’s tintColor prop, layout animations, the back handler, and more.

React Boston

Horror Stories From Hacking the DOM Into a Native Platform

React Native has come a long way since its announcement 3 years ago, but what if its future meant looking even further into its past?