Recent Web development and React Native Blog posts

In total, I've written 154 articles on internet. This site is a collection of most of the articles I've published here or elsewhere.

Tags: devrel - 1 expo - 44 firebase - 16 gatsby - 2 graphql - 4 harperdb - 2 ionic - 9 javascript - 2 no-code - 1 nodejs - 33 react - 20 react-native - 76 redux - 5 tools - 9 twitter-bots - 4 writing - 3

How to avoid notches with Safe Area Context in React Native apps
Published on October 14, 2021 · ☕️ 5 min

How to configure VSCode Bracket Pair Colors Natively
Published on October 12, 2021 · ☕️ 1 min

How to add Splash Screen and an App Icon in React Native
Published on October 1, 2021 · ☕️ 11 min

How to use iOS simulator in full-screen
Published on September 15, 2021 · ☕️ 1 min

How to solve RCTBridge required dispatch_sync to load warning on iOS for React Native
Published on September 4, 2021 · ☕️ 1 min

How to Offer Multi-language Support in a React Native App
Published on August 16, 2021 · ☕️ 12 min

GET Request params with Axios
Published on August 11, 2021 · ☕️ 1 min

Environment Variables in Expo and TypeScript
Published on August 4, 2021 · ☕️ 1 min

The No-Code Way of Payments with Stripe: A Brief Guide
Published on July 8, 2021 · ☕️ 3 min

How To Integrate Firebase Authentication With an Expo App
Published on July 4, 2021 · ☕️ 19 min

Common Prop Types in TypeScript and React
Published on June 29, 2021 · ☕️ 1 min

Prop types in React and TypeScript
Published on June 28, 2021 · ☕️ 3 min

🌱 Life at Draftbit - First 3 Months as a Developer Advocate
Published on May 25, 2021 · ☕️ 5 min

How to Create a Custom Image Gallery in React Native
Published on May 17, 2021 · ☕️ 12 min

How to Create a Custom Tab Bar in React Native
Published on May 7, 2021 · ☕️ 14 min

How to use ES6 import syntax in Node.js
Published on April 7, 2021 · ☕️ 2 min

How to upload an image using Expo Camera to Cloudinary
Published on March 31, 2021 · ☕️ 13 min

Setup Macbook M1 for Web and React Native development
Published on March 14, 2021 · ☕️ 16 min

How to use React Native Geolocation to get Postal Address
Published on February 25, 2021 · ☕️ 9 min

React Native Performance Do and Dont
Published on February 13, 2021 · ☕️ 6 min

How to use shared element transitions in React Native
Published on January 19, 2021 · ☕️ 15 min

How to remove bottom tab bar border in React Navigation
Published on January 17, 2021 · ☕️ 2 min

How to use redux-persist in React Native with Asyncstorage
Published on January 8, 2021 · ☕️ 19 min

How to add an app icon in a React Native Android app
Published on January 6, 2021 · ☕️ 3 min

Year Rewind: 2020
Published on December 23, 2020 · ☕️ 14 min

How to create a custom scrollbar with React Native Animated API
Published on December 10, 2020 · ☕️ 11 min

How to manage state in React apps with useReducer and useContext hooks
Published on November 6, 2020 · ☕️ 8 min

Creating and Validating React Native Forms with Formik
Published on October 16, 2020 · ☕️ 13 min

How to use HarperDB instance with React Hooks
Published on October 7, 2020 · ☕️ 9 min

How to Animate a Header View on Scroll With React Native Animated
Published on October 1, 2020 · ☕️ 9 min

Add Environment Variables in a Netlify Deployment
Published on September 1, 2020 · ☕️ 3 min

How to use React Router and real time user monitoring in React apps
Published on August 14, 2020 · ☕️ 13 min

Build a REST API with Node.js and HarperDB
Published on July 23, 2020 · ☕️ 14 min

How to setup a React App with a Firebase project
Published on June 5, 2020 · ☕️ 7 min

Styling The React Native Way
Published on June 4, 2020 · ☕️ 7 min

How to create a new Firebase project?
Published on June 1, 2020 · ☕️ 2 min

How to create custom wavy headers with react-native-svg
Published on May 26, 2020 · ☕️ 8 min

How to integrate Material UI library in React apps
Published on May 24, 2020 · ☕️ 8 min

Chat app with React Native (Part 6) - Create a custom hook to change status bar styles
Published on May 18, 2020 · ☕️ 6 min

Creating "Quarantine Pro" — A Fun Learning Experiment in React Native
Published on May 14, 2020 · ☕️ 16 min

Chat app with React Native (Part 5) - Create and Fetch Real-Time Messages with Firestore
Published on May 11, 2020 · ☕️ 12 min

How to integrate GraphQL and Apollo Client in React Native app
Published on May 11, 2020 · ☕️ 15 min

Chat app with React Native (part 4) - A guide to create Chat UI Screens with react-native-gifted-chat
Published on April 28, 2020 · ☕️ 12 min

An in-depth guide on how to use React Native Image Picker
Published on April 27, 2020 · ☕️ 16 min

Chat app with React Native (part 3) - Create Firestore collections to store chat rooms
Published on April 21, 2020 · ☕️ 12 min

How to add a Search bar in a FlatList in React Native apps
Published on April 16, 2020 · ☕️ 10 min

Chat app with React Native (part 2) - Firebase Email Authentication with react-native-firebase
Published on April 16, 2020 · ☕️ 11 min

Blogging tips after 3 years and a 100+ posts
Published on April 13, 2020 · ☕️ 6 min

Chat app with React Native (part 1) - Build reusable UI form elements using react-native-paper
Published on April 6, 2020 · ☕️ 15 min

How to create a custom hook to change status bar styles for every screen using React Navigation
Published on March 13, 2020 · ☕️ 5 min

Build an Expense Tracker app with React Hooks and LocalStorage API
Published on March 11, 2020 · ☕️ 16 min

Nesting Tab and Stack navigators in React Native and Expo apps
Published on February 26, 2020 · ☕️ 8 min

Getting Started with Stack Navigator using react-navigation 5 in React Native and Expo apps
Published on February 21, 2020 · ☕️ 15 min

How to handle navigation in WebViews in a React Native app
Published on February 7, 2020 · ☕️ 9 min

Using Redux with React Hooks in a React Native app
Published on January 27, 2020 · ☕️ 9 min

Getting Started with React Native and Expo using Hooks in 2020
Published on January 17, 2020 · ☕️ 16 min

How to add Dark mode functionality with React Hooks
Published on January 9, 2020 · ☕️ 9 min

How to handle Deep Links in a React Native app
Published on January 8, 2020 · ☕️ 8 min

How to use React Native Localize in React Native apps
Published on January 1, 2020 · ☕️ 5 min

Implement Firebase Phone Authentication in React Native Apps
Published on December 3, 2019 · ☕️ 7 min

Implement Push notifications for Android apps with React Native
Published on November 19, 2019 · ☕️ 9 min

Handle different field types in React Native forms with formik and yup
Published on October 26, 2019 · ☕️ 7 min

How to implement Forgot Password feature in React Native with Firebase
Published on October 25, 2019 · ☕️ 8 min

Image Classification on React Native with TensorFlow.js and MobileNet
Published on October 17, 2019 · ☕️ 10 min

Build and validate forms in React Native using Formik and Yup
Published on October 16, 2019 · ☕️ 17 min

Changing app themes using React Native, Styled Components and Redux
Published on October 2, 2019 · ☕️ 10 min

Using Context API with React Native
Published on September 27, 2019 · ☕️ 14 min

How Authentication Flow works in React Native apps using React Navigation 4.x
Published on September 10, 2019 · ☕️ 10 min

How to Build an Audio Player in React Native
Published on August 28, 2019 · ☕️ 14 min

Build a Not Hotdog clone with React Native
Published on August 27, 2019 · ☕️ 18 min

Building offline React Native apps with AsyncStorage
Published on August 18, 2019 · ☕️ 32 min

How to use the Geolocation API in a React Native app
Published on August 16, 2019 · ☕️ 14 min

How to build a xylophone app with Audio API, React Native, and Expo
Published on July 22, 2019 · ☕️ 9 min

How to Create a Chatbot with Dialogflow, NodeJS, and Webhooks
Published on July 19, 2019 · ☕️ 11 min

Using React Router to Optimize Single Page Applications (SPAs)
Published on July 11, 2019 · ☕️ 11 min

Introduction to Apollo Client with GraphQL and React
Published on July 10, 2019 · ☕️ 9 min

To Travel, A Tech Conference and One Million views - a Recap
Published on July 2, 2019 · ☕️ 5 min

How to integrate Firebase and Firestore cloud database with a React application
Published on June 20, 2019 · ☕️ 9 min

How to Setup a React App with TypeScript, Storybook
Published on June 14, 2019 · ☕️ 6 min

Build a Custom Modal with the Animated API in React Native
Published on June 13, 2019 · ☕️ 15 min

Build a Twitter Clone Server with Apollo, GraphQL, Nodejs, and Crowdbotics
Published on June 13, 2019 · ☕️ 11 min

Building Stylistic UIs with Emotion-JS for React Native
Published on June 4, 2019 · ☕️ 15 min

User Authentication with Amplify in a React Native and Expo app
Published on May 22, 2019 · ☕️ 11 min

Building a React Native Mobile App with AWS Amplify and Expo
Published on May 9, 2019 · ☕️ 16 min

How to Build a Web App with React Native
Published on April 29, 2019 · ☕️ 6 min

How I Configure VS Code for Everything
Published on April 22, 2019 · ☕️ 4 min

React Hooks Basics — Building a React Native App with React Hooks
Published on April 19, 2019 · ☕️ 16 min

How To Build Your First VR App with ViroReact, React Native, and Crowdbotics
Published on March 28, 2019 · ☕️ 9 min

Build a Chatbot with Dialogflow and React Native
Published on March 26, 2019 · ☕️ 10 min

How to Build a Real Time Logo Detection App with React Native & Google Vision API
Published on March 20, 2019 · ☕️ 13 min

Using Styled Components with React Native
Published on March 19, 2019 · ☕️ 16 min

Create a React Native Image Recognition App with Google Vision API
Published on February 13, 2019 · ☕️ 12 min

How To Build a News Reader App with React Native and NewsAPI
Published on February 12, 2019 · ☕️ 14 min

Top open source libraries for Node.js
Published on January 31, 2019 · ☕️ 16 min

21 Useful Open Source Packages for React Native
Published on January 28, 2019 · ☕️ 12 min

3 Steps to learn React Native in 2019
Published on January 4, 2019 · ☕️ 4 min

Getting Started with React Native in 2019 - Build Your First App
Published on January 4, 2019 · ☕️ 17 min

My Top Tutorials in Web Development and React Native in 2018
Published on December 31, 2018 · ☕️ 5 min

Top Node.js Libraries and Tools For Machine Learning
Published on December 19, 2018 · ☕️ 12 min

How To Build a REST API With Nodejs and PostgreSQL
Published on December 10, 2018 · ☕️ 16 min

Integrating Firebase with React Native
Published on December 5, 2018 · ☕️ 9 min

How To Build A Blog From Scratch With React, Markdown, GraphQL and Gatsbyjs
Published on November 21, 2018 · ☕️ 13 min

Building an authenticated MERN Stack App Using Material UI
Published on November 16, 2018 · ☕️ 32 min

How to Build a Serverless Backend with AWS Lambda and Nodejs
Published on November 13, 2018 · ☕️ 16 min

Creating a GraphQL server with Nodejs
Published on November 5, 2018 · ☕️ 15 min

How to use Import statements in Nodejs
Published on November 1, 2018 · ☕️ 5 min

Setting up Nodejs Backend for a React App
Published on October 18, 2018 · ☕️ 5 min

Building a REST API with Koajs
Published on October 16, 2018 · ☕️ 12 min

Deploy a MERN stack app on Heroku
Published on October 12, 2018 · ☕️ 17 min

How to use React-Navigation in a React Native App
Published on September 28, 2018 · ☕️ 6 min

Accessing Geo-location and App Permissions in React Native and Expo
Published on September 20, 2018 · ☕️ 6 min

Simple Recipe to Build a Theme App in React Native
Published on September 11, 2018 · ☕️ 3 min

How to integrate Redux into your application with React Native and Expo
Published on August 10, 2018 · ☕️ 10 min

Week 3 with React Native - Why use Expo?
Published on July 26, 2018 · ☕️ 2 min

Week 2 With React Native - Building a Weather App
Published on July 16, 2018 · ☕️ 4 min

React Native - How to Setup Your First App
Published on July 13, 2018 · ☕️ 6 min

Starting Over with React Native
Published on July 7, 2018 · ☕️ 4 min

How to Upload a File with Reactjs and Nodejs
Published on June 23, 2018 · ☕️ 8 min

React Native - Building a Minimalist Weather App using Expo XDE
Published on March 27, 2018 · ☕️ 11 min

React Native - Getting Started with Lottie and Expo
Published on March 9, 2018 · ☕️ 5 min

Build a Progressive Web App using React
Published on February 1, 2018 · ☕️ 11 min

Designing a REST API with Node.js and MongoDB Atlas
Published on January 22, 2018 · ☕️ 11 min

Gatsby.js - How to set up and use the React Static Site Generator
Published on January 4, 2018 · ☕️ 8 min

Ionic 2/3 CLI Reference
Published on December 19, 2017 · ☕️ 3 min

Passing Data Between Pages in an Ionic Application
Published on December 3, 2017 · ☕️ 3 min

Tips for Creating Nodejs REST APIs
Published on November 22, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Multi Page Navigation in an Ionic App
Published on November 19, 2017 · ☕️ 5 min

How to Setup a React App from Scratch?
Published on November 16, 2017 · ☕️ 9 min

Using Google Fonts in an Ionic Application
Published on November 9, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Basic Navigation in Ionic Applications
Published on October 31, 2017 · ☕️ 1 min

How to use Font Awesome in an Ionic Application
Published on October 18, 2017 · ☕️ 3 min

What is Ionic?
Published on October 12, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Introduction to Hybrid Mobile Apps
Published on October 5, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Remove node_modules Recursively
Published on September 10, 2017 · ☕️ 1 min

Setup Nodemon to auto restart Nodejs application server
Published on September 10, 2017 · ☕️ 3 min

What’s New in npm 5?
Published on August 24, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Converting a Buffer to JSON and Utf8 Strings in Nodejs
Published on August 10, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Setting up MEAN Stack with Webstorm
Published on July 2, 2017 · ☕️ 1 min

How to paginate records in MySQL using Sequelize and Nodejs
Published on June 20, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Getting Started with Sequelize for Nodejs Applications
Published on May 30, 2017 · ☕️ 4 min

How to use ESLint in Node.js Applications
Published on April 28, 2017 · ☕️ 4 min

How to Mock Data for Node.js Applications using faker.js
Published on April 1, 2017 · ☕️ 3 min

Getting Started with Ionic Framework
Published on February 26, 2017 · ☕️ 7 min

Migrating from Expressjs 4 to 5
Published on January 11, 2017 · ☕️ 2 min

Using Bower With Heroku
Published on December 29, 2016 · ☕️ 1 min

Writing a Node.js Twitter Bot Part 1
Published on December 25, 2016 · ☕️ 8 min

Writing a Node.js Twitter Bot Part 2
Published on December 25, 2016 · ☕️ 4 min

How to make a Twitter Bot with Node.js
Published on December 15, 2016 · ☕️ 3 min

Create a Simple Twitter Bot with Node.js
Published on November 23, 2016 · ☕️ 8 min

ATOM- An Editor of 21st Century
Published on July 14, 2016 · ☕️ 3 min

How process.nextTick() works in Node.js?
Published on June 25, 2016 · ☕️ 2 min

The Node.js system
Published on April 22, 2016 · ☕️ 4 min

The Node way - Philosophy of a Platform
Published on March 10, 2016 · ☕️ 1 min

JavaScript Code Conventions
Published on January 8, 2016 · ☕️ 4 min