Things can get… funky in React Native. Here’s how to start fresh and reset a React Native app cache.

There are a lot of things in play in a React Native app including:

• NPM/Yarn
• Cocoapods
• Watchman
• Metro bundler
• React Native
• iOS Build
• Android Build

When things start to get weird/unexpected…

Fetching data from a remote source is a must in just about every app you’re going to build. Unfortunately, fetching data is rarely as simple as just fetching the data and rendering it. A few things to consider:

• What do we do when we’re waiting for the data to load?
• …

Reanimated 2 is a hyper powerful library that all the cool kids use but has always been a bit of a blackbox to me… I saw the power of it but was overwhelmed by the API.

This post was originally published on React Native School. If you’re interested in hundreds…

Learn how to use the core TextInput component to capture user input via the keyboard.

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React Native Bootsplash

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If you’re coming into React Native development from a web background you may be intimidated by using a full blown IDE like Xcode. Today I’d like to give you a run down of how to use this super powerful tool.

You won’t need to use it often but, as they…

I spend a lot of time working with Rfeact Native. My primary interface with my code is Visual Studio Code. The most common question(s) I get on my YouTube videos are always related to my editor…

“What theme is that?”

“How did you get it to autocomplete like that?”

Here…

I use Spotify a lot. In the mobile app the home screen allows you to scroll both vertically (across different groups) and horizontally (within a group). Here’s how I do the same in React Native.

Below is a demo of what we’ll end up with. It allows you to render…