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In this post, I’ll share some details around design decisions and mistakes I made while working on React Native Modal, a Modal component library for React Native. I hope that sharing my thoughts may help other new open-source maintainers to avoid such errors.
The last mistake I wanted to mention is relying too much on third-party libraries. Specifically, in my case, react-native-animatable. React Native Animatable is a great library that allows defining transitions and animations in a declarative fashion by abstracting the React Native animated API. In 2015/2016, react-native-animatable was the way to sprinkle animations on top of React Native apps. Mad props to @oblador for building it. react-native-animatable powers all react-native-modal’s animation. Users can pick any animation exposed by react-native-animatable and apply it to the enter/exit state of the modal with a single line of code.
Time has passed, though. React Native Animatable is still a good solution today, but it’s not as performant nor configurable as the more modern options. Nowadays, there are several new ways to animate views more efficiently in React Native. Between the good-old React Native animated API, Reanimated/Reanimated 2, Moti (which can almost be a drop-in replacement for React Native Animatable), and Lottie, adding silk-smooth native animations to a React Native app has never been easier.
Time has passed, though. React Native Animatable is still a good solution today, but it’s not as performant nor configurable as the more modern options. Nowadays, there are several new ways to animate views more efficiently in React Native. Between the good-old React Native animated API, Reanimated/Reanimated 2, Moti (which can almost be a drop-in replacement for React Native Animatable), and Lottie, adding silk-smooth native animations to a React Native app has never been easier.
Time has passed, though. React Native Animatable is still a good solution today, but it’s not as performant nor configurable as the more modern options. Nowadays, there are several new ways to animate views more efficiently in React Native. Between the good-old React Native animated API, Reanimated/Reanimated 2, Moti (which can almost be a drop-in replacement for React Native Animatable), and Lottie, adding silk-smooth native animations to a React Native app has never been easier.
This post focuses on a React Native library, but it’s not strictly related to React Native. It’s more about generic design and maintainability decisions. This should be a beginner-friendly post. Seasoned open source maintainers are probably already familiar with the topics explored here.