The team at Airbnb explains how React Native was ultimately not quite enough to meet their original goals.
"We saw the potential for code sharing between mobile and web and were able to share a few npm packages but beyond that, it never materialized in a meaningful way."
Visual Studio Code is on fire. Everybody loves this unexpected text editor smash hit, and for good reason: it can do A LOT. It can compile JavaScript templates on the fly, execute JavaScript inline, manage Mongo DB instances and so much more!
Can you read the code you wrote today, last week, last year? The positive impact authoring readable code can have on your career can be enormous. We spend far more time reading code than writing it. So how can we turn this to our benefit?
Flutter recently became one of the top 100 software repos on GitHub. Flutter is Google's mobile UI framework for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time.
"In those five short years while I was on campus, agile became the norm in product development, much to the detriment of designers. What I saw was design practice taking big steps backwards—vision, exploration, deconstruction, associative thinking, and interruptions were suppressed in favor of working the way developers work."
Kevin Rose built the first version of Oak in a very open manner. For version 2, he engaged AJ&Smart for a Remote Design Sprint to focus on one flow of the app.
They liked the process so much they used it to guide a full redesign. In the same transparent spirit as building v1, Rose allowed the team to share about the process.
In agile software development, a fire drill is usually unwelcome. At Revelry, we call out fire drills almost every day - find out why, and how it saved us.