React Native with Tadeu Zagallo

React Native enables iOS and Android development using React.

Mobile devices use a virtual machine to interpret the JavaScript into native code.

Tadeu Zagallo is a Facebook engineer who works on React Native for iOS.

Questions

• What is the story behind React Native?
• What is the message passing model between the JavaScript VM and the native iOS code?
• What is the threading model of React Native?
• Why is native mobile inherently difficult?
• Why did Facebook need to build mobile apps in the first place?
• Is Facebook building a mobile operating system using React?

Links

• React Native
• React Native: Bringing Modern Web Techniques to Mobile
• Diary of Building an iOS App with React Native
• Tadeu on Twitter

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