React Native Talks #2 - Performance

React Native is one of the most commonly used technologies here at Wix Engineering. We love, admire and appreciate React Native, and because we’re that way about it, we believe we have some ideas, lessons learned and deep insights we’d be happy to share with you.

This meetup is intended to teach you some basics to help you to troubleshoot performance issues, as well as discuss common sources of problems with react-native and their suggested solutions.
Join us for the 2nd talk in our React Native meetups series!

🕑 Schedule:
18:00 - 18:30 - Gathering, drinks and food 🍕🍺
18:30 - 19:15 - (Don’t) Blame it on React Native / Ofir Dagan
19:15 - 19:30 - Break
19:30 - 20:15 - Practical Performance / Yedidya Kennard

Talks Description:

// (Don’t) Blame it on React Native / Ofir Dagan

When writing large scale react native app it’s always fun to blame RN for everything that is wrong in our lives. However, what we keep finding, again and again, is that in most cases, writing better performant react code, can fix our performance issues. In the last couple of years our team built a huge production app in react native. In this talk, I’ll go over some of the lessons we’ve learned in regards of react native performance and how to improve your app’s performance subsequently.

Bio: Ofir is an R&D manager at Wix.com. In the last few years he has worked a lot with react and angular, and developed wix's dashboard from scratch. Over the last two years, Ofir has been leading the Wix CRM Mobile team, writing wix’s mobile app in react native and is now leading the Wix Chat group. He is also a mentor at Wix Academy (Wix's training program) and loves speaking about software in all of its forms.

// Practical Performance / Yedidya Kennard

By now we all understand how important performance is, and we’ve heard how you can get the performance you need from React Native. In this talk, I’ll show some practical examples of how to raise your app’s performance level with a few quick tricks.

Bio: Yedidya is a mobile developer in the Wix Mobile team, working on the Wix app. From a native Android background, he has been working mostly with React Native for the last two years, learning more every day.