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we’ll be back in 2024!
React Native Heroes Conference
16 June 2023 – Turin, Italy
React Native Heroes provided a unique learning and networking opportunity for the Italian community of React Native developers.
Every week React Native is used by thousands of developers and downloaded by millions of users. And React Native Heroes serviced the Italian developer community. The event provided a chance for React Native developers to stay on top of updates about the dynamic React Native framework and all the changes that occur in the open source environment.
The event covered framework and release status discussions, new architecture adoption and ways that the developer experience is improving and changing.
Thanks to all of the speakers, sponsors and participants that helped to make React Native Heroes such a strong launch event.
Speaker Highlights
“The work that you don’t see”
Lorenzo Sciandra
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
In React Native, when people usually get excited it’s all about some shiny new feature, or tool, or clickbaity “do this to get 10x better!” claim. When announcements are made, they need to be catchy, sleek and able to generate hype… and how, for the Nth time, RN is better than tech X or faster than tech Y.
But that’s not all that is happening: under the surface, deep down in the mines of the foundation of this ecosystem, there’s a steady stream of work, discussions and considerations happening – all driven by the pressing need to constantly shift React Native into something more solid and better structured. In this talk, I want to take you down into the guts of these conversations, and shine a light onto some of these radical changes, how they are shaped up and what to expect in the future of React Native.
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Lorenzo Sciandra is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft; since 2018 he is also a maintainer of react-native, and he’s been a releaser since 0.57.4. He cares a lot about mental health and open source, and won’t stop talking about either.
“Can native modules be easy?”
Tomasz Sapeta
Software Engineer, Software Mansion
Can native modules be easy?
Sometimes we come across the need to use some native APIs or 3rd-party libraries in our React Native application, but there is no such library available yet or all of them are of poor quality or, even worse, unmaintained. Creating a native module for React Native always sounds like a pain, especially for us, React Native developers who usually specialize in React and JavaScript/TypeScript. Learning Objective-C, Java or C++ just to make a library can be challenging and expensive.
In this talk I’m going to show how Expo with its Expo Modules API changed the way of writing native modules for React Native, making it much easier, more approachable and enjoyable for developers who are comfortable with TypeScript and have limited experience in mobile development. The Expo modules are written in more modern languages: Swift and Kotlin which are more similar to TypeScript. We will walk through how it differs from the standard Bridge and Turbo modules and show some of the features it offers.
Software Engineer at Software Mansion
I work at Software Mansion as the Tech Lead of the Expo SDK team. The author of the presented Expo Modules API and the maintainer of many Expo SDK packages.
“Design systems in React Native: a storybook approach”
Federica Vacca
Software Engineer, Belka
Design systems in React Native: a storybook approach
Have you ever wondered if the same principles and libraries used for web design systems can be applied to mobile ones? We did. In Belka we created a boilerplate and documentation to build a reproducible process for web design systems but soon we realised that the logic and the code structure for mobile design systems are slightly different from what we chose.
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Software Engineer at Belka
I’m a software engineer at Belka, a digital product studio based in the Italian Alps. I develop websites and mobile apps using React and React Native. When I am not coding, you can find me cooking, overanalyzing things, or taking long walks.
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The Location
MAUTO – Museo dell’Automobile, Corso Unità d’Italia 40, Torino
React Native Heroes 2023 will be held at the superb Museo dell’Automobile. Turin is the home of Fiat and the Turin car museum is a shiny testament to the city’s strong connection to the automotive industry. The congress centre is extremely modern and well-equipped as well as being light, bright and spacious. The ideal venue for meeting, networking, chatting and sharing ideas.












