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I remember buying a Mac in college because I was finally going to get into Native development!! Well, that was almost 10 years ago and after many false starts i

I remember buying a Mac in college because I was finally going to get into Native development!! Well, that was almost 10 years ago and after many false starts it just never happened... seemed like such an insurmountable amount of cruft for even the most mundane things. Then earlier this year I tried RN. And yes, I struggled mightily at times with building/deploying/linking libraries, but when it came to the app it finally felt closer to the level of effort I put in building web stuff. And then I finally sent an app out the door with Camera integration and some pretty neat UI elements. All thanks to this. RN has lowered the barrier to entry in such a way that I have a feeling my story is/will be incredibly common. CRNA is yet another great step in that direction, so on behalf of us mostly part-time devs, thanks a ton!

sorenbs 10y ago
I'm a fairly experienced backend and web developer. My first experience with RN was exactly this. During 24 hours at a hackathon I was able to build an app that would show a live view of the camera, capture 5 frames a second to be analysed by an external api, overlay recognised food items on the screen, send it all off to the hello fresh api and display a list of recipes to the user that would use the most food items from their fridge. The fact that I was able to accomplish all of this in 24 hours with no prior RN experience is just amazing to me.
- sorenbs 10y ago
  Btw, GraphQL and React Native / Expo is a great combo https://www.learnapollo.com/tutorial-react-native-vanilla/rnv-01 https://www.learnapollo.com/tutorial-react-native-vanilla/rn...