Chain React 2023
2023-05-17..2023-05-19
Portland, United States
[Chain React 2017, Chain React 2018, Chain React 2023, Chain React 2024, Chain React 2026]
who it's for
React Native developers, mobile engineers, engineering managers, mobile app architects, accessibility engineers, build and release engineers, frontend web engineers, desktop platform engineers
topics
React Native performance tuning; VoiceOver accessibility for iOS; Expo EAS and dev clients; react-native-web production SSR; Electron to React Native migration; JSI and TurboModules integration; app signing and Fastlane automation; server-driven UI layout API; codebase rewrite and repo migration; codegen and contributing to Core
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Outrage-driven development to take your React Native app up a level | Mark Rickert | 32m |
A practical method for turning small frustrations into concrete fixes with measurable wins: a quarter‑million line TypeScript React Native app is audited, a… | ||
| Incorporating screen readers into React Native development for improved accessibility | Chris DeMars | 09m |
A live demo shows a React Native app where VoiceOver on iPhone initially skips the Twitter icon then, after changes, announces it and opens Twitter with a… | ||
| Reviving a Codebase: Our 3-Week React Native Rescue Mission | Jenn Robison | 13m |
A failing React Native app gets a full rewrite completed in three weeks with concrete results: rolled a new repo and replaced tangled navigation and state… | ||
| From Electron to React Native | Christoph Purrer | 27m |
Migrates Messenger desktop from Electron to React Native, reusing C++ addons via JSI and Turbo modules, replacing the web-based calling window with a native… | ||
| Signed, sealed, deployed: shipping React Native apps | Cecelia Martinez | 30m |
A practical checklist for shipping React Native apps: automate config and screenshots, manage signing, build in CI, and push to stores. Examples include using… | ||
| Not your grandparents’ | Keith Kurak | 25m |
Claims that Expo lets a project stay JavaScript-first while adding surgical native changes: it demonstrates development builds that produce reusable dev… | ||
| The past, present, and future of React Native | Andrew Gable | 20m |
Expensify migrates from a 2010 closed-source mobile framework to React Native and react native web, replacing a legacy V8 engine by porting to JavaScriptCore… | ||
| The work that you don't see | Lorenzo Sciandra | 23m |
The claim is that boring infrastructure work is what actually restores trust in React Native and it gives concrete results not platitudes: changelogs generated… | ||
| Building a 5-star app | Kadi Kraman | 27m |
Claims actionable steps: use error boundaries to avoid full-app crashes and show friendly fallback UI, monitor errors with Sentry, stage rollouts and roll back… | ||
| Building for | Chiara Mooney, Shiven Mian | 33m |
Claims that React can run on desktop get specifics: Microsoft achieves API parity and is bringing Fabric to React Native for Windows, ships production UI… | ||
| Server-Driven UI | Naoya Makino | 09m |
Mercari describes a layout API for server-driven UI that sends an ordered list of components and content so the app composes native screens at runtime using… | ||
| Wait, you’re shipping React Native to the web?! | Taz Singh | 28m |
Claims a production web app runs entirely from React Native: Guild ships on the web using react-native-web, ExpoGL and Reanimated, with Tamagui compiling to… | ||
| 0 to 1 (Million Downloads): PUMA's Mobile Success Story | Rob Walker | 29m |
PUMA’s React Native app hits 1,000,000 downloads in six months and ships fast: 39 releases in 51 weeks with gradual phased rollouts to limit blast radius… | ||
| Simple by default | Theo Browne | 22m |
Claim: React is static by default so complexity becomes something that scales outward from a simple core, not a constant tax. Concrete tools: Next.js and React… | ||
| Building NTWRK’s livestream shopping application w/ React Native | Nick Alekhine | 11m |
NTWRK builds a production livestream shopping app in React Native that actually runs ultra‑low‑latency video, chat and auctions using Pusher Stream Agora for… | ||
| From Codegen to your first PR in Core | Riccardo Cipolleschi | 29m |
Walkthrough of Codegen shows the actual claim: unify parsers and remove duplication so generated native bindings stay in sync with JS. Concrete numbers and… | ||
| Default to performance | Colin Gray | 39m |
Shopify defaults to performance with concrete choices: use Flash List full stop and avoid ScrollView/FlatList; measure in production with a native marker view… | ||
| Scaling teams with federated super apps | Michał Pierzchała | 27m |
Live demo wires a web view and a mobile app into AWS services to push real‑time emojis via AppSync subscriptions and a websocket endpoint; data models are… | ||
| Gateway to React: the react.dev story | Rachel Nabors | 13m |
A behind-the-scenes account of building documentation that actually reduces friction: a ground-up rewrite yields react.dev and a redesigned react-native.dev… | ||
| The performance myths of React Native | Ankita Kulkarni | 31m |
Compares real apps to native by number and tooling: builds a sample app "Let's spend your money" with lists, charts and animations and measures CPU, memory… | ||
| nothing matches | ||