react-native-skia VS react-native-reanimated

Another example of this is React-Native-Skia: https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/docs/getting-sta...

It uses a virtual DOM to diff the desired state and the current one: https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/docs/canvas/cont...

If you're interested how it's implemented, that's the source code: https://github.com/Shopify/react-native-skia/blob/main/packa...

If you've got another setup (e.g. raw React Native) refer to the setup on the Skia Docs and the Reanimated Docs as there are additional setup instructions.

It works wonderfully well for my react native app, see https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/ for details!

I stopped further tracking of the source code. As an end of this blog post, I would like to share my finding of the React Native Skia which brings the Skia Graphics Library to React Native. You can get more information from a Shopify Engineering blog Getting Started with React Native Skia. Hope it helps, see you next post.

This is the latest version of the issue (haven't had much luck getting support from the Skia team throughout this), I'm happy to get on a call to show you further if you have any experience with dealing with these monorepos or Skia for web. The moment we run a successful Next.js build I'll paypal you $250 on the spot.

The docs for react-native-skia docs seem spare and the only linked tutorials are in video form. Can anyone recommend any good written resources?

By using libraries like Reanimated, React Native MMKV, and React Native Skia, you leverage the native thread. However, I know there are developers building amazing things who think outside the box. I'm always thrilled when I read engineering blogs from companies like Netflix, Meta, and Shopify. They create solutions beyond the limits.

@wuba/react-native-echarts, An awesome charting library for React Native, built upon Apache ECharts and leveraging react-native-svg and react-native-skia. Offers significantly better performance compared to WebView-based solutions. If you want to learn more about the project's design principles, you can click here.

Reanimated: Create smooth animations with an excellent developer experience

3. React Native Reanimated – High-Performance Animations 🎬

At its core, the package provides a customizable ReactionBar component that displays a row of animated reaction icons. It leverages react-native-reanimated to deliver smooth, natural animations that look great on both iOS and Android devices. The component is built with performance and simplicity in mind, so you can add interactive reactions to your user interface with just a few lines of code.

react-native-reanimated

If you've got another setup (e.g. raw React Native) refer to the setup on the Skia Docs and the Reanimated Docs as there are additional setup instructions.

However, this update actually messed up the animations in the app because there was a bug in the Reanimated update. So, I had to debug the app by downgrading the Reanimated version first and then checking with the latest version to ensure that the bug was caused by the library. I ended up reporting the bug to the Reanimated GitHub repo and earned a contribution to the open-source project. Another advantage of debugging library skills is that you can contribute to their GitHub repos and earn extra points in job interviews. You can see my contribution here

Supports Animation: Tamagui leverages the popular open-source library — Moti as a reanimated driver for animation libraries such as react-native-reanimated and React Native Animated.

FYI react-native-reanimated (https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated) is not the Animated API from React Native. react-native-reanimated allows JS code to run on a UI thread that is able to synchronously modify layout, providing alternative synchronous ways for you to hook into the layouting. For instance, as opposed to the asynchronous `measure()` method provided by React Native to measure layouts, react-native-reanimated allows one to call their version of `measure()` (https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/api/...) to perform the same operation on the UI thread, synchronously.

By using libraries like Reanimated, React Native MMKV, and React Native Skia, you leverage the native thread. However, I know there are developers building amazing things who think outside the box. I'm always thrilled when I read engineering blogs from companies like Netflix, Meta, and Shopify. They create solutions beyond the limits.