A fresh new take on the battle-tested React Native boilerplate — We’re delighted to announce that Ignite 8.0 (code-named “Maverick”) is now released on NPM! This release is the largest one in Ignite’s history since 2.0 (“Bowser”). …

MobX-State-Tree property setters are kind of annoying. Here’s a nice shortcut to create them automatically. — If you’ve used MobX-State-Tree (as we generally like to do at Infinite Red), you’ll know that you can’t assign to properties outside of an action. import { types } from "mobx-state-tree" const UserModel = types.model("User", { name: types.string, age: types.number }) const user = UserModel.create({ name: "Jamon", age: 40 }) user.name…

*…in all the ways that don’t matter. — Flutter and React Native are natural competitors as two of the most used multi-platform mobile app frameworks. Debates swirl…developers argue…and, in the end, apps are shipped, using one or the other. So which is better? The smart answer, the one that senior engineers will say with a cheeky grin, is…

…or you’ll be going 2x as slow and not know why — Note that this article will likely age poorly as React Native & adoptopenjdk are upgraded. It was written November 19, 2021 and updated February 23, 2022. NOTE: This article is no longer up to date. Please follow the official React Native installation instructions instead. OLD ARTICLE BELOW: While we are…

A year of weekly podcasting deserves a look back! — One year ago, Infinite Red acquired and relaunched React Native Radio, which is the biggest React Native podcast on earth. We had some experience with podcasting before with our Building Infinite Red podcast. However, React Native Radio was a whole new challenge! …

I recently started a new Twitch series called React Native Live, hosted on my Twitch channel, and a recent installment was about installing expo-updates. If you missed it, no worries — this blog post will cover the same topic…or watch it on YouTube! OTA Updates Explained React Native apps are JavaScript logic bundled…

A question we get in the Infinite Red Slack Community fairly often is: Hi, I’m new to React Native. Is Ignite for beginners or experts? I’m going to answer this question once and for all. Ignite’s Purpose In order to know who Ignite is for, you first have to understand why it…

Discover one of Ignite’s hidden gems — generators! — In Ignite 6.0, one of the big changes was reworking how our generators work to make them simpler and more project-specific rather than generic. What are generators? They’re Ignite CLI commands that create components, models, screens, and other features of your app with a single command, like this: ignite generate…

A slimmed-down, much easier to maintain version of the world’s most popular React Native boilerplate — (Note: a previous version of this blog post introduced Ignite Flame as version 4.0. Since then, we have decided to publish as 6.0 to avoid confusion with Ignite Bowser 4.x and 5.x.) 5-minute Video Intro Ignite is well-known in the React Native world. It’s a collection of all of Infinite…