Panel:

Nader Dabit
Sia Karamalegos
Lucas Reis

Special Guests: Orta Therox

In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Orta Therox about his 2 years of experience with React Native at Artsy. Orta has about 15 years of native Mac and iOS development experience and about 2 ½ years ago, his team decided to start writing their iOS app in React Native. They talk about the different popular blog posts about React Native, why his team decided to switch over to React Native, and the effects of team size on the success of the fit of React Native in each company’s app. They also touch on professional growth, how they have trained their employees, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Orta intro
React Native and JavaScript
React Native at Artsy blog post
React Native at Airbnb blog post
Suspense
Web engineering
Taking different approaches
Being a better way to build an iOS app
Adoption coming from a native perspective
Does the size of the team matter?
Product verticals
How do you balance the need for professional development VS what’s needed at the moment?
Vertically oriented teams
Professional growth after the change
GraphQL API
Training everyone over multiple years
React
Allowing anyone to contribute anywhere within their domain
How they describe their native engineers
More excited about React Native now than when it was released
Artsy React Native Conference
And much, much more!

Links:

Artsy
React Native
JavaScript
React Native at Artsy
React Native at Airbnb
GraphQL
React
@orta
orta.io
Orta’s GitHub
Artsy Engineering

Sponsors

Kendo UI
Digital Ocean
FreshBooks

Picks:

Nader

AWS Amplify
Artsy Engineering blog
Nader’s GitHub

Sia

Styled components
Web Summer Camp

Lucas

MDN web docs

Orta

vscode-inline-types
Coalition for Queens (C4Q)