🔥 Ignite Your Mobile Development
An unfair head start for your React Native apps.
When our mobile dev team jumped into React Native 8 months ago, we couldn’t find concise information. The boilerplates we did find were either lacking or just … well sucked. Keep in mind, this is before such awesome releases as Barton Hammond’s snowflake. Back eight months ago, we did what we could, taking turns exploring and making mistakes.
Fortunately, our pain has been everyone’s gain. We blogged often and fondly; plus we contributed to Open Source projects when we could. Internally, we’ve diligently worked together over the past half-year+ to figure out a groove that embodies all the lessons learned.
Nowadays, it seems a new boilerplate is available every week and though they help the community learn a few things, we still feel they don’t impact us much. We’ve really ironed out a fantastic system for React Native. As a consultancy that needs to educate one another as well as ship product, our values are strong but simple:
- A unified place to demonstrate and explain best practices.
- Baked-in tools to help understand and optimize during development.
- Generators that fit 80–90% of common code to promote speed.
Our greatest contribution for all of this is version 1.0 of Ignite
What is Ignite?
For us, it’s a multi-purpose tool.
It’s our tool to accomplish the values listed above. It’s our tool for documenting updates, and it’s our tool for contributing to Open Source.
Help us define it further. Use it, open issues, PRs, and suggestions on our repo. Do you need a battle-tested head start that you know works? Here it is:
Is it finished!?
Version 1.0 and all the features, YES! It’s ready! Version 1 will continue to evolve in whatever ways needed to continue working with React Native.
BUT, we have big plans for where this is going. For version 2.0 we’re hoping to build a composition feature set. Like my good bud Daniel Kehoe’s Rails Composer, we will remove our kitchen sink and install the precise features you chose during the generation process.
About Gant
Gant Laborde is Technical Lead at Infinite Red (⚙ web and mobile app dev ⚙), published author, public speaker, and mad-scientist in training. Read the writings of Gant and his co-workers in our Red Shift publication. If you’re looking to discuss nerdy tech, he’s all ears. View half-witty half-groan technical tweets with @GantLaborde on twitter.
