“Learn once, write anywhere” — all about Real Native

On the market, we meet the two most popular approaches: native and hybrid. Native apps are written for a specific platform. They use the maximum capabilities of a given platform, but they are quite cost-intensive. Maintaining several independent programmers’ teams is an impossible barrier for many companies. The same applies to the client – creating the same application available on many platforms is an additional cost. In practice, the decision to prepare an application for a single platform often takes place or a leading platform is selected, while the other platforms are available with fewer functions.
The hybrid approach was created as a proposition to solve the above problem. Hybrid technologies give the possibility to create an application for all platforms at the same time. In addition, thanks to the use of web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript), the application can be prepared by the same developers who work on its web version. Unfortunately, in this case the application performance level drops. In response to these problems arose third approach — a cross-platform native, including React Native.
Today, 99.6% of all smartphones run on either iOS or Android. Companies treat mobile apps not only as a sell opportunity but also as a channel for raising brand awareness. React Native is a combination of two previously mentioned technologies. It allows us to create mobile applications for multiple platforms at the same time. It’s based on React, a library for creating interfaces known to us well from web applications that was developed and open-sourced by Facebook in 2013.
Developers were very optimistic about this solution. Why? Because React Native is lightweight and offers great performance, especially for rapidly changing data, it also gives us the ability to write reusable code. According to data presented by Christopher Chedeau during React Europe 2015, the Ad Manager application created by Facebook uses 87% of the code on both platforms. Sounds interesting? React Native helps web developer turn into a potential mobile developer, and provides a significant improvement over the existing mobile application development process.
You will receive more information about React Native at events that will take place this year around the world. Which of them should you choose? Here is the list.

Top 6 React Native related events in 2018

1. REACT FEST

When? March 8-9 March in London, United Kingdom

Information:

React Fest is a one-day open-source ReactJS conference. 14 speakers will attend the event. There will also be full-day hands-on workshops. Both workshops will take place on 8th March 2018​, a day before the ReactFest conference. Planned workshop topics:

• React Advanced Workshop — React Academy will hold an exclusive full-day,
  hands-on coding workshop to explore React and its broader ecosystem, a day
  before the conference. To attend this workshop you need to be familiar with
  the basics of React, as well as most of the new features in ES2015.
• Real world graphql workshop — full-day, full-stack, hands-on GraphQL
  workshop, where you will learn how to build a GraphQL server following
  latest good practices, and how to use GraphQL in your React client
  applications. This workshop is for developers curious to learn how GraphQL
  can help you write better APIs and better applications.

What issues will be presented during the conference? React.JS and FE, including React Native, GraphQL, VR & AR, Redux, Preact and much more.More information about React Fest you will find on Twitter and YouTube.

2. REACT AMSTERDAM

When? April 13 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Information:

React Amsterdam is a one-day, two-track conference that brings together Front-end and Full-stack developers from around the world. During the meeting, you will listen to over 25 speakers. The day before the main day of the conference, April 12, there will be workshops addressed both to people starting their adventure with React Native and enthusiastic fans. You will be able to gain knowledge of the following topics:

• React Advanced Workshop​ — an exclusive full-day, hands-on coding
  workshop to explore advanced patterns and state-management solutions for
  React. Workshop dedicated to Intermediate experts.
• Advanced React State Management With MobX Workshop — in this
  workshop we will learn about MobX and MobX in combination with React.
  Workshop dedicated also to intermediate experts.
• React Native Workshop ​— ​in this workshop you’ll learn from React Native
  core-contributor as he guides you through the framework, ecosystem, syntax,
  and best practices to build a real-world application.

You will find more information about conference in Amsterdam on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

3. REACT FINLAND

When? April 24-26 in Helsinki, Finland

Information:

React Finland is the first conference of this kind in Finland. The planned event consists of a day of workshops and two days of talks on React Native technology. 20 speakers have already expressed their willingness to participate. The event organizers ensure that the focus on quality rather than quantity. The first day of the conference will be a workshop. Each session will take four hours, and they will be arranged twice, so each participant have a chance to choose two. A session is capped to twenty people, so if you are interested in, hurry up and make a reservation. If you want to be up to date, then follow the conference information on social media-Twitter.

4. REACT EUROPE

When?​ May 17-18 in Paris, France

Information:

The first React Europe conference took place in 2015 and since then has attracted many fans of new technologies. This year’s edition begins with two-day workshops (May 15-16). This workshop will focus on helping us build more advanced and professional applications with a real native like experience with animations, gestures, react-native-gl, testing and more. This workshop requires an intermediary level in React Native. The exact plan of the workshops and the topics of the lectures presented during the conference will appear soon. It’s worth following the news about this conference on social media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.

5. REACT NEXT

When? September 6 in Tel Aviv, Israel

Information:

ReactNext is the largest ReactJS conference in Israel and first international ReactJS conference in the Middle East. First edition took place in 2016. ReactNext targets both beginner and experienced devs in two parallel tracks with sessions about React, React Native, Redux, MobX, and everything about the ecosystem. It’s also a great opportunity to visit Israel. The detailed plan of this year’s conference is not yet known. The information will surely appear soon on the event’s website and on social media. Check please Facebook, Twitter or YouTube posts for more details.

6. REACTJS DAY

When? October 5 in Verona, Italy

Information:

ReactJS Day is a full-day conference dedicated to React.js. The conference is organized by GrUSP, the organizers of jsDay, in partnership with FEVR. The previous edition of the conference was attended by 13 speakers, including two from Poland – Katarzyna Jastrzębska (24stStore) and Tomasz Łakomy (Egnyte). We hope that this year’s conference will also provide a lot of useful data. We encourage you to follow the news about ReactJS Day in the social media – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.

As you can see, a lot will happen in the React Native theme in 2018. Our React team is planning to attend the ReactAmsterdam conference. Who will we give a high five to? If you are interested in the meeting, please send us information – mail to [email protected].