I just made an app in 26 hours
How I built Dunbar, a relationship management app, in just 26 hours by leveraging high motivation, Expo, minimal boilerplate, and open source libraries.
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How I built Dunbar, a relationship management app, in just 26 hours by leveraging high motivation, Expo, minimal boilerplate, and open source libraries.
Introducing Redux Light, a minimal boilerplate approach to Redux that prioritizes composition over inheritance and faster time to context while maintaining clarity.
Seven critical mistakes to avoid when building React Native apps including premature complexity, messy codebases, lack of product-market fit validation, and poor user retention strategies.
Exploring why code ownership is essential for agile development and how feature ownership can diminish inefficiencies and bottlenecks in development teams.
A controversial take on coding practices advocating for inline styles and WET code over DRY principles to prioritize development speed and reduce abstraction overhead.
Seven key principles for maintaining high code quality, balancing concerns like DRY principles, naming conventions, external dependencies, and reducing time-to-context.
An exploration of component organization strategies in React Native, introducing a folder structure based on component types including fat, pure, screen, wrapper, and universal components.
A quick overview of essential development tools and productivity apps for building React Native applications, including VSCode, ESLint, Prettier, RescueTime, and WakaTime.
A comprehensive cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts and terminal commands for VSCode, MacOS, React Native Simulator, Chrome DevTools, and common Git workflows.
A comprehensive comparison of Expo versus bare React Native and ExpoKit, outlining advantages like build automation and OTA updates, and disadvantages including app size constraints.
A humorous exploration of different mental modes developers shift between while coding, from debugging to perfecting UI, illustrated through fictional programmer personalities.