React Native EU Conference 2018

Conference

September 5-6th 2018

Workshops - September 3-4th

Networking party - September 5th

Wroclaw, Poland

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First community conference in Europe, focused exclusively on React Native. Community, core contributors, insights, networking and tons of knowledge - that's all waiting for you in one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe, Wroclaw.

Feel the good vibes of last year’s edition!

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PEGGY RAYZIS APOLLO
Peggy is an open source engineer at Apollo, where she builds tools to help make GraphQL accessible to more people. She's also the author of react-native-create-bridge, and an accomplished speaker & blogger.
KURTIS KEMPLE
React / React Native / GraphQL enthusiast, co-organizer of @NYCGraphQL, and creator of react-native-sideswipe.
ALEXEY KUREEV Facebook
Alexey is a software engineer passionate about React, React Native and their ecosystem. Co-author of RNPM. Author of articles "How to create your own native bridge".
Gant Laborde Infinite Red
Gant Laborde is a software consultant, adjunct professor, published author, and award-winning speaker. He volunteers as a mentor, an “open sourcerer”, and aspires to one day become a mad scientist. His React Native prowess is prevalent through blogs, videos, and maintainer status in popular repositories. His title is Chief Technology Strategist for Infinite Red. Follow Gant’s adventures at http://gantlaborde.com/
Quinlan Jung EXPO
Quinlan is a software engineer at Expo, an open source toolchain built around React Native. She’s previously worked on the Elastic Block Store at Amazon Web Services.
Harry Tormey
Harry is an experienced Mobile Software Engineer who has worked at prominent Bay Area companies such as Apple and Facebook. At Facebook he worked as an iOS engineer on both the search and commerce teams building customer facing features that shipped in the main Facebook app. At Apple he worked on the Core Audio team where he specialized in frameworks for multimedia Desktop and Mobile Applications. Harry has also shipped a number of React Native applications and runs a consultancy that specializes in mobile development and training. Harry has trained and consulted at organizations ranging in size from startups to fortune 500 companies.
Ken Wheeler Formidable Labs
Director of Open Source at Formidable and the author of libraries like Slick Carousel, McFly, react-music, webpack-dashboard, Spectacle.
Samuli Hakoniemi Punos Mobile
Samuli is a long time entrepreneur who's in deep love with React Native. He works mostly with start-ups and also keeps himself busy by organising events in Finland.
Jani Eväkallio Formidable Labs
Jani, a veteran of the Frontend Framework wars, has earned his battle scars writing JavaScript on the bleeding edge for the last decade. Today, he leads a team building cross-stack React mobile and web apps at Formidable London. He gets childishly excited about beautiful user interactions and design tools. In his spare time, he performs improvised comedy and speaks at conferences advocating for the React ecosystem, particularly React Native and GraphQL.
Mateusz Zatorski Callstack
Software engineer with a passion for learning and solving unique problems. Lately exploring the ReasonML world. After work you’ll most likely find him on the volleyball court.
Eric Vicenti
Creator of Aven, a full-stack framework for web and React Native apps. Author and maintainer of React Navigation with Expo. Formerly on Facebook’s open source team and the React Native team.
Krzysztof Magiera Software Mansion
Ex-facebooker and co-creator of React Native. Now as a head of mobile at Software Mansion working on performance focused improvements for animations and gesture handling to React Native and Expo.
Matt Hargett PlayStation
Matt Hargett has been programming for over 30 years. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, daughter, and dog. His music can be found on all digital storefronts as “the making of the making of”.
Radek Pietruszewski Nozbe
Software writer, proud generalist, senior skeptic. Leads iOS and Mac development at Nozbe. His background is in native development for Apple platforms, but for the past two years he's been working on next-generation apps built with React Native. You can follow Radek at @radexp and his blog on radex.io

Jani Eväkallio Formidable Labs
Nader Dabit AWS
Nikolas Burk Prisma
Nikolas is a GraphQL enthusiast currently working at Prisma. Before that he worked as an iOS instructor at Make School in San Francisco. Nikolas is passionate about learning and sharing knowledge. After university, he spent 3 months at the Recurse Center in NYC to functional programming. Recently, he played a major role in creating the popular fullstack tutorial How to GraphQL. Today, he enjoys giving workshops and talks all around GraphQL.
Vladimir Novick
Software Architect, independent consultant, worldwide speaker, co-organizer of ReactJS Israel, Author of "React Native - Build mobile apps with JavaScript" book and several workshops and courses. He brings years of experience in JavaScript ecosystem and is one of early React and React Native adopters. On daily basis Vladimir works in Web, Mobile, VR/AR and IoT fields both for customers and on personal projects. Previously he worked in Sports, Gaming & Video industries as Lead Architect & Team Leader

Each workshop day will end around 6 PM CEST.

The workshops ticket includes the whole, 2-day session. On the second day, you can chose freely between the workshops from both tracks.

September 3th

08.30

09.00

Callstack

With React Native, you don't build a “mobile web app”, an “HTML5 app”, or a “hybrid app”. You build a real mobile app that's indistinguishable from an app built using Objective-C or Java. React Native uses the same fundamental UI building blocks as regular iOS and Android apps. You just put those building blocks together using JavaScript and React. In this workshop you'll learn from the team of awesome developers from Callstack, who build a variate of React Native applications on a daily basis. They will guide you through the framework, ecosystem, syntax, and best practices to build a real-world application.

Introduction to React Native (setting up project, tools, debug)
Quick glance at the standard app
Core components (layout, styling)
Lists (ScrollView, ListView)
Navigation
Animations
Native modules

Before the workshop, please follow the installation instructions to prepare all the software dependencies. macOS devices are preferred, but *nix and Windows powered machines would also work, although you won't be able to build iOS applications. No React Native knowledge is required. Participants should be familiar with Javascript and ideally, basics of React. We will do a quick introduction to both before we start though.

Link to the instalation instructions

Environment setup instructions prerequisites

September 4th

08.30 I track

Formidable Labs

Animations and interactions are what brings your apps alive and make them feel native.

In last year's workshop we covered the basics of the Animated and PanResponder APIs. This year we'll jump right into practice and cover the latest React Native tools for interactive animation!

Low-level animations with react-native-reanimated
Declarative gestures with react-native-gesture-handler
Implementing custom scene transitions for React Navigation

Familiarity with React Native development will help you get the most out of this workshop.

01.30

Prisma

GraphQL has drastically changed the way how we interact with APIs by providing a strongly-typed layer for client-server communication. This notably improves performance by letting clients request the specific data they need using a simple and declarative syntax. Thanks to the GraphQL schema which serves as the contract for all possible API operations, GraphQL further introduces many benefits to local development workflows (such as compile-time error checks and editor auto-completion) and the overall API tooling space.

Design a GraphQL schema
Build and deploy a GraphQL server with Node (or TypeScript) and GraphQL bindings
Tie your React components to the GraphQL API using Apollo Client
Interact with the API in realtime using GraphQL subscriptions
Make the most out of existing GraphQL tools"

08.30 II track

Augmented Reality is not only a buzzword, it's also a global trend, lots of companies invest into. Last year Apple and Google introduced ArKit and ArCore as iOS and Android solutions for building mobile apps. In this workshop we will see how we can use these frameworks from within React Native application and will build an Augmented reality game.

01.30

AWS

AWS has many services that help mobile application developers abstract away complex functionality such as User Authentication, Push Notifications, and Storage. In this workshop, we'll look at how to leverage powerful AWS services using the Amplify library in a React Native environment.

September 5th

08.15

Registration
09.15

Mike Grabowski
Callstack
Introduction
09.30

Mike Grabowski & Mateusz Zatorski
Callstack
Keynote
10.00

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10.30

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11.00

Coffee break
11.30

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12.00

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12.30

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13.00 – 14.00

Lunch
14.00

Quinlan Jung
Expo
Self hosting mobile applications

When building a website, you expose an endpoint where you control the contents that are served back to a user. What if you could do this with a mobile app? Quin will be talking about how you can host your own javascript bundles, writing your own policies so you control exactly what version of the app different users get, and pushing them over the air to users for real time updates.
14.30

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15:00

LIGHTNING TALKS
16.00

Coffee break
16.30

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17.00

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17.30

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18.00

Evening party

Free food, free beer & great people !

Location:

At the conference venue

Start: 6:00 PM CEST

September 6th

09.30

Harry Tormey

React Native Brownfield - Lessons from the Trenches

Hot reloading--the ability to push over the air updates to published apps and the promise of having your app “just work” out of the box on Android as well as iOS--make React Native a tempting proposition for frontend developers. But what do you do when you have to integrate React Native into a large existing native code base?

This talk is from the perspective of an experienced native iOS developer who has worked with React Native to ship several cross-platform Greenfield and brownfield apps.

Things I will talk about:
- Overview of the challenges involved in integrating React Native into an existing app
- A real life case study integrating React Native into a native app with millions of users
- Strategies for passing data and events in a brownfield app
- Strategies for deciding what’s a good candidate to port to React Native and what’s not
- Working with build systems like CocoaPods
- Dealing with an existing navigation system
- How to do CodePush in a brownfield app
- How to handle navigation in a brownfield app
- Best practices for working with Native engineers
- Example brownfield application

Extra notes: This is a new talk based on work I did for a client with a large existing native app used by millions of users.
10.00

Gant Laborde
Infinite Red
Taming The Machine

React Native is a collection of open source tools that combine and interweave to create a beautiful machine. Each part adds power, and each part adds liability. Remember each dependency you add, is a dependency you own. Now that teams, clients, and contributors are working with your software, we need to convert those field horses to dependable war horses. I'll introduce tooling to make your React Native work dependable for you and your team.
10.30

Coming Soon
11.00

Coffee break
11.30

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12.00

Samuli Hakoniemi
Punos Mobile
Better User Experience With Animations

Most user interfaces in mobile applications are visually attractive. And it’s always a huge pleasure for developers to work together with talented designers. However an excellent UI requires even more - the art of telling a story. My presentation is about enhancing the UI and UX by taking advantage of animation capabilities in React Native. During the talk, you will learn in practice when and how animations should be used and how to create an alluring story for the application.
12.30

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13.00 – 14.00

Lunch
14.00

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14.30

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15.00

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15.30

Coffee break
16.00

Q&A panel
17.00

Closing