Last week was a great week for the react-native ecosystem. we saw some great announcements form react-native Europe and core team members that would make react native development more enjoyable.

In case you missed it, this is a small post that covers almost all news and announcements from the last week.

React native 0.61 release candidate with fast refresh :

Fast refresh is a “hot reloading” alternative feature and it should be as reliable as a full refresh but the feedback loop is fast.

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1169687758849400832

Flipper with React Native :

Flipper is a great developer tool for debugging mobile apps. This tool is shipped with react-native 62. But you can use it today with your existing Application, thanks to the amazing Parashuram’s blog post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2NHrOAOXFg

Component-first Navigation :

React Navigation 5.0 (alpha) has been released and offer a new way to navigate in React Native with a dynamic component-based API.

https://twitter.com/satya164/status/1169626346747846656

On the wave of RN navigation announcements, the amazing Krzysztof Magi release [email protected] including support for native nav stack primitives (e.g., UINavViewController)

https://twitter.com/kzzzf/status/1169643842515144704

Microsoft is working on bringing React Native to Mac :

During react Native Europe, Microsoft demonstrates how they use react-native with Office suite to build cross-platform new features. And they announced that they are working on bringing React Native to Mac too.

https://twitter.com/grabbou/status/1169914786748010497

Formik native :

The great Jared Palmer will publish on the next few weeks a native formik version with scroll/focus/keyboard management by default.

https://twitter.com/jaredpalmer/status/1169634039067795456

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