Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra
@Kelset
otaku at heart current: "on a break" ๐๏ธ (open to chats) prev: Sovereign Tech Agency, Microsoft & React Native core maintainer ๐ London, UK
Exciting Updates for React Native Core
What an ๐ฅ few days it has been for #reactnative core!
I'm over the moon to report that two very important things happened over the last few days! ๐
1๏ธโฃ the monorepo work has been completed!
Started as an RFC back in May 2022 (link github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/pull/480), thanks to the great work from @cortinico and especially @lesiutin, the last PR (github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/36434) has been merged and now the repo is in a MUCH BETTER STATE โจ
Learning resources about doing tech talks
Over the last few months I got back into doing talks for meetups & confs.
I took this chance to go through my bookmars of smart people writing about how to do good tech talks and clean it up; and today I want share it with y'all ๐ค be ready, it's a longish one!
Let's start ๐๐งต
1) @hynek's "On conference speaking" - great skeleton on how to approach any talk + ton of insights from an experienced speaker in the #python world
hynek.me/articles/speaking/
My flow for migrating to the new arch
Towards the end of my talk about the new #reactnative arch and how to migrate to it, I share this (fairly massive) graph ๐ผ๐
I made this flowchart in an attempt to help teams in the early days of defining their migration plan; let me walk you through some of the main points ๐งต
The React Native Community Map
One other thing I've been on-and-off tweaking over the last few months is a "map" of where the #reactnative community exists.
I've always felt a (weird?) sense that this community is especially scattered - so this ๐บ was something I've been thinking about for quite some time. ๐งต
More than a few times I've had to re-do a variation of this from scratch, either to "prime" a colleague or to use for knowing where to post new blogposts and things like those.
So now I've turned this map into a @NotionHQ page and it will always be just a few clicks away ๐ค
React Native & "market share" data points
I've been tinkering with this for a while, so gather'round folks - today I want to talk a bit about #reactnative and "market share" ๐ฐ
One of the problems I tend to have every now and then is to quantify and understand how widespread @reactnative โ๏ธ in the vast app world... ๐งต
I'm a rational (lol) human (lol x2) - so what I like is good sources giving me good hard numbers ๐งฎ
Wouldn't it be nice to have just a quick & easy table, and you can just read there how many apps in production are using RN (or any other tech, for what's worth)?
learning about RNweb
ok y'all help me figure something out.
Let's talk #reactnative web for a second.
My (very basic) understanding is that this was (and still is) a personal project by @necolas that was used way back when in a Twitter owned product (tweetdeck? can't recall).
Then...
...since it proved good, the mobile-web Twitter app was moved to RNWeb too.
And then, some time later, the mobile-web Twitter app became the main one (yeah, the one I'm using to type this ๐งต right now!).
So - if I'm correct so far - RNWeb is the core lib of twitter web.
Now...
Announcing rnx-kit
Allright folks, let's chat for a second about this ๐
me, @lord_sherlock and @afoxman4 worked basically the last 8+ months on this. We have now got to the point where we feel that we can show y'all the different #reactnative tools and improvements we made so far ๐ twitter.com/ReactNativeMSFT/status/1521958978946682880
The way you should look at this website (and this repo) is basically that all the things in there are what we use in our day to day (as @Microsoft).
The code in there is not side-project: those things are used *today* across the company (from Office to Windows to Xbox, etc etc).
My 4 years retrospective on being a maintainer
My 4 years retrospective about being a #reactnative โ๏ธ maintainer is finally out ๐จโ๐ป
๐ In it, I look back at:
* issue triaging
* releases
* @reactnative (tech AND community)
* #opensource
* github
* #mentalhealth
* career
* Q&A
Link ๐ gist.github.com/kelset/05ae2f4a861c2252fc592ebadd7e0f25
Thanks @savelichalex, @jpdriver, @fastsquatch, @kudochien, @xff1874, @emmbyiringiro, @edodusi and @haibert8 for your questions!
I hope the answers are good enough ๐ค I think they complement really well the first part of the blogpost โ๏ธ