RRU 025: 2 Years of React Native at Artsy with Orta Therox




React Round Up show

Summary: <p><strong>Panel: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Nader Dabit</li> <li>Sia Karamalegos</li> <li>Lucas Reis</li> </ul> <p><strong>Special Guests:</strong> Orta Therox</p> <p>In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Orta Therox about his 2 years of experience with React Native at <a href="https://www.artsy.net/">Artsy</a>. Orta has about 15 years of native Mac and iOS development experience and about 2 ½ years ago, his team decided to start writing their iOS app in <a href="https://facebook.github.io/react-native/">React Native</a>. They talk about the different popular blog posts about React Native, why his team decided to switch over to React Native, and the effects of team size on the success of the fit of React Native in each company’s app. They also touch on professional growth, how they have trained their employees, and more!</p> <p><strong>In particular, we dive pretty deep on:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Orta intro</li> <li> <a href="https://facebook.github.io/react-native/">React Native</a> and <a href="https://www.javascript.com/">JavaScript</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://artsy.github.io/series/react-native-at-artsy/"><em>React Native at Artsy</em></a> blog post</li> <li> <a href="https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c"><em>React Native at Airbnb</em></a> blog post</li> <li>Suspense</li> <li>Web engineering</li> <li>Taking different approaches</li> <li>Being a better way to build an iOS app</li> <li>Adoption coming from a native perspective</li> <li>Does the size of the team matter?</li> <li>Product verticals</li> <li>How do you balance the need for professional development VS what’s needed at the moment?</li> <li>Vertically oriented teams</li> <li>Professional growth after the change</li> <li> <a href="https://graphql.org/">GraphQL</a> API</li> <li>Training everyone over multiple years</li> <li><a href="https://reactjs.org/">React</a></li> <li>Allowing anyone to contribute anywhere within their domain</li> <li>How they describe their native engineers</li> <li>More excited about React Native now than when it was released</li> <li><a href="http://artsy.github.io/artsy-x-react-native.html">Artsy React Native Conference</a></li> <li>And much, much more!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.artsy.net/">Artsy</a></li> <li><a href="https://facebook.github.io/react-native/">React Native</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.javascript.com/">JavaScript</a></li> <li><a href="http://artsy.github.io/series/react-native-at-artsy/"><em>React Native at Artsy</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c"><em>React Native at Airbnb</em></a></li> <li><a href="https://graphql.org/">GraphQL</a></li> <li><a href="https://reactjs.org/">React</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/orta?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor">@orta</a></li> <li><a href="http://orta.io/">orta.io</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/orta">Orta’s GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="http://artsy.github.io/">Artsy Engineering</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Sponsors</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/?utm_medium=cpm&amp;utm_source=adventuresinng&amp;utm_campaign=dt-kendo-ang2-nov16&amp;utm_content=audio">Kendo UI</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/">Digital Ocean </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.freshbooks.com/invoice?ref=11731&amp;utm_source=pbm&amp;utm_medium=affiliate-program&amp;utm_influencer=419364&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-influencers">FreshBooks</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Picks:</strong></p> <p>Nader</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws-amplify.github.io/amplify-js/index.html">AWS Amplify</a></li> <li> <a href="http://artsy.github.io/">Artsy Engineering</a> blog</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/dabit3?tab=repositories">Nader’s GitHub</a></li> </ul> <p>Sia</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.styled-components.com/">Styled components</a></li> <li><a href="http://2018.websummercamp.com/">Web Summer Camp</a></li> </ul> <p>Lucas</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/">MDN web docs</a></li> </ul> <p>Orta</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/sokra/vscode-inline-types">vscode-inline-types</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.c4q.nyc/">Coalition for Queens (C4Q)</a></li> </ul>