- React
- React Boston
- 2018
- Horror Stories From Hacking the DOM Into a Native Platform
Horror Stories From Hacking the DOM Into a Native Platform
Vincent Riemer at React Boston 2018
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.