martin_bigio

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by martin_bigio 10y ago
Packager has gotten pretty stable lately, you shouldn't need to restart it anymore. In regards npm modules, you only need to do so when upgrading dependencies which doesn't happen that often. We also use yarn, an npm client FB bui
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
couldn't agree more with @realharo. IMHO C++ step learning curve is a no-go for product dev.
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
what's the problem? If it's a generic error message that's s server-side issue unrelated to RN the team is working on fixing.
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
I've only seen such thing on infinite non-optimized listviews on old Android crappy phones, but, new listview infra that solves this is coming up soon :)
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
JS code run on JSC, bridge modules are implemented on objc/java
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
Although the Instagram website is a React App we are not reusing any code atm. This is something I personally want to explore at some point though.
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
Great Q. React and React Native use difference "renderers". I believe that with the right pattern to use a different set of low level components you could manage to reuse a big chunk, but this isn't something we have tried so
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
Brace yourself, FlatList is coming :)
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
No, we didn't use any of those. For unit testing we used Jest <3 and for e2e an internal library developed by FB
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
Great question. First off, worth mentioning there are many performance metrics you might want to measure. On one hand start up times, but since you specifically mentioned Save, I assume you want to learn more about scroll perf (i.e.: droppe
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
Oops, that was an internal link - fixing now.
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
No plans for powering camera using React Native for now. We already have great native infra for that and regardless, IMHO RN might not be the best technology to implement those kind of immersive ultra-performant flows. We see space for Reac
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by martin_bigio 10y ago
@martinbigio here in case anyone has questions
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React Native at Instagram(engineering.instagram.com)
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