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Using Material Design / Material UI in a React Native App

Hamburger menus, drawer navigation, Floating Action Buttons, and Contextual Action Bars. Add all these and other Material Design goodies to your app seamlessly
Jun 28, 2021 11 min read Programming, React-Native, Mobile App Development

Build a Google Maps style panel overlay with scrollable inner content in React Native using rn-sliding-up-panel and react-native-maps

Draggable panels exist on most modern apps with a map component (think DoorDash, SpotAngels, Google Maps), but implementing such a panel with scrollable inner content isn’t easy. Here is a way to implement that type of panel with seamless draggability and content scrolling in React Native
Jan 3, 2021 7 min read Programming, React-Native, Mobile App Development

Build an NPM Package with Expo Dependencies for Expo and Plain React Native Apps

A guide to publishing NPM packages meant to be used in Expo and plain React Native apps, especially if your packages depend on Expo libraries
Nov 16, 2020 8 min read Programming, React-Native, Mobile App Development

How to Save Files to a Device Folder using Expo and React-Native

Save files to a device’s internal storage so that it’s publicly visible to other apps with one line of code
Nov 10, 2020 5 min read Programming, React-Native, Mobile App Development

Free, One-Command, Self-Hosted Commento Deployment for a Hugo Site

I couldn’t find a turnkey, one-command solution to self-host my preferred comment section service on my site, so I wrote my own.
Sep 22, 2020 4 min read DevOps

Hiding API Keys on React Native in 10 Minutes with AWS API Gatweway

The popular react-native-google-places-autocomplete library asks you to paste your third-party API keys in frontend code, which is pretty insecure. But you can stay secure without wasting a whole day on a custom workaround. Here’s how.
Sep 7, 2020 7 min read Programming, DevOps