What's This React Native Thing I Keep Hearing About?
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In our daily lives as iOS developers, we can usually happily keep coding away in Swift and ignore what’s going on in other software development communities, like that of JavaScript. However, there may be some advantages to at least becoming familiar with what’s going on in the world of React Native, and in this session you will get an overview of what React Native is, and why it could be a useful addition to your toolbox an iOS developer. These slides are based on a talk given by Evan K. Stone at the Forward Swift conference in San Francisco on March 2, 2017.
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