React Native Internals

Submitted Jun 14, 2017

Section: Full Talk Technical level: Intermediate

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 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.

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