Fluid interfaces, Fabric, JSI and Turbo Modules in React Native

Hello Reactors!

Are you ready for the January event?
Let’s do it.

But first….

Thank you Ice.no and Agens for hosting the meetup and offering food & drinks!

Let's introduce our speakers:

1. Fluid interfaces with React Native and React Navigation by Mats Hauge and Jarand Millet @Agens

When getting started with React Native, many of us get blown away by how easy it is to make dynamic and native-feeling interfaces. However as we try to develop more sophisticated user experiences, we start finding stumbling blocks - this is particularly true when aiming to do develop fluid interfaces. Yet with a bit of hackery, most of these stumbling blocks can be overcome today.

This is a talk about what we have learned about building better interfaces with React Native and React Navigation. The main case is the new app built with ice, but we will also look at new examples.

About the speaker:
Mats and Jarand are software engineers at Agens, a UX & tech collective based out of Oslo. Together with colleagues at Agens and ice, they built up the new Ice app.

Mats is passionate about motion design and building user interfaces that are fluid and delightful. In addition to always being on top of all things React Native, Jarand cares deeply about how it can be use to create great user experiences that can compete with native.

2. “React Native: the past, the present and the future” By Lorenzo Sciandra from the React Native Core Maintainer

As we approach React Native's 4th birthday, we've observed more progression towards our original vision than ever before. Even still, we have yet to realise its core mission of being as powerful as pure native. There have been many challenges that we've faced head on as they've surfaced. In overcoming them with the support of the community, we've managed to establish React Native as a force that is now defining the future of the segment.

In this talk, we'll explore this history-in-the-making before diving deeper into more technical subjects including Fabric, the JSI, and TurboModules. With all the pieces of the puzzle in place and landing on master in upcoming months, we are closer to reaching our original objective than ever before while pushing the limits to a whole new level.`

About the speakers:

Lorenzo is a Software Engineer that decided to use React Native for a project a few years ago. He hasn't stopped since - which led him to help out the Facebook team with maintenance of the React Native repository. When he's not tweeting, he's busy thinking about his next tweet.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

One small note about participating the January Meetup:
Since Ice delivers critical infrastructure, we need to have some security in place when having meetups.
Therefore we ask you kindly to bring your ID since we will need to check this by the door.

We will open at 17.30 and our talks will start at 18:00!

Please only RSVP “YES” if you're actually coming.