UI Testing Web Views in a React Native App with Appium

Although there are quite a few UI testing frameworks for cross-platform apps, not all of them have the ability to interact with a web view. When an app contains a web view or runs entirely within a web view, having the capability to do this is very important for end-to-end testing.

Writing an iOS App on Your Phone with play.js

play.js is an interesting iOS app that acts as an IDE for Node.js and React Native. It’s a weird concept, but the thought of being able to create an app for my phone by using an app for my phone was too fun to pass up.

Three React Native Libraries I Can’t Live Without

As I wrap up my current project, a React Native app, my team has been thinking a lot about what went right and what went wrong when using the framework. Since it’s a pretty lightweight framework, we brought in a lot of external libraries to help us build our app. Besides some always-useful libraries, such […]

An Intro to React Navigation for React Native

When you first sit down to write a React Native app, you’ll find that after making your first screen, you don’t have an easy way to navigate to another. React Native doesn’t have that functionality built in, but in this post, I’ll outline how to use a library that makes it possible: React Navigation.

Styling Custom Components in React Native Using TypeScript

I recently ran into an issue with providing style properties to custom React Native components written in TypeScript. When defining the type of the style property, we were using the ViewStyle and TextStyle types provided by React Native. interface Props { textStyle?: TextStyle; viewStyle?: ViewStyle; } class BlogPost extends React.PureComponent<Props> { render() { return ( <View […]

Three Habits to Break on Large React Native Projects

Working on a large(ish) React Native project presents some unique challenges for web and mobile developers. Isolating components from one another is a great way to make refactoring easy, but it leads to some pretty gnarly directory hierarchies. If you read much React Native code, you’re bound to pick up a few habits that cause […]

Getting Started With React Native – Easy or Hard?

I’ve been watching React Native for a while. The idea of using a React (and Redux) approach to developing cross-platform-ish native apps is really appealing. Since I have no React Native experience, I wanted to understand how much work is required to get started.

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