Being a Android native developer i didn’t like idea of writing apps in JavaScript. My Javascript knowledge was limited to some alert dialogs & ajax requests. Once i got an opportunity to write a small app in react native, i really like the boost it gave to productivity out of me and fact that i can write iOS app too now, YAY :).

Big thanks to ES6 for all syntactic sugar and easeness it gave to a Java developer.

I was amazed by platform which runs natively though written in Javascript. But question how React Native does all this natively, was still not clear. I start digging in to same and thinks its worth sharing my learnings in this talk.

Outline

I will be covering below topics

React Native internals

• React Bridge
• Threads in react native
• Message Queue
• Javascript Engine
• Virtual DOM
• React Native Modules
• Events flow

React Native app Performance insights

Speaker bio

Product Engineer @Gojek, Indonesia’s first unicorn startup.

Links

• Lightning talk @Droidcon-2016 https://speakerdeck.com/akhgupta/android-easylocation
• https://stackoverflow.com/users/1677824/akhil
• https://github.com/akhgupta