React And React Native Meetup : April 2022

Two years since our last meetup, we hosted the first ever offline React and React Native meetup on the 22nd of April yesterday hosted by us at GeekyAnts at our headquarters in Bangalore. Our meetups are a fun way of us discussing with our friends in the community about what is new and growing with this technology. This meetup was very special to us as it was the first time in two years that we met up in person to discuss what is happening with this ever-evolving technology. There were a lot of things that were discussed including the new architecture of React and React Native, its new functionalities which allow it to be used for web along with our in-house contributions which include NativeBase. We had a full-house where we encouraged developers from across Bangalore to come and pitch in with their two cents about the state of React and React Native and where it would go next.

In this article, we have outlined all the talks that took place of the day along with the links to the sessions:

While all of our meetups are a forum to exchange ideas, what sets this one apart is that it gave folks an opportunity to catch up, socialise and talk about common interests in person. The event was closed with a panel discussion and what set this one apart from the rest of our meetups is its interactive nature where the audience jumped in to contribute to the conversations and queries around React and React Native. The panelists not only discussed the new architecture of React Native and the advantages it brings to developers but they also spoke about topics like debugging in order to enhance the quality of code that is being written. Performance issue was another subject that was discussed along with state management and how to implement it the right way. The panelists discussed the advantages of Redux and what it brings to the table in terms of React state management but also how to vary and implement it according to the use case. They also spoke about technologies like Chrome DevTools and React DevTools and how to fix performance issues using these technologies.