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Build a Google Maps style panel overlay with scrollable inner content in React Native using rn-sliding-up-panel and react-native-maps

Draggable panels exist on most modern apps with a map component (think DoorDash, SpotAngels, Google Maps), but implementing such a panel with scrollable inner content isn’t easy. Here is a way to implement that type of panel with seamless draggability and content scrolling in React Native
Jan 3, 2021 7 min read Programming, React-Native, Mobile App Development

Build an NPM Package with Expo Dependencies for Expo and Plain React Native Apps

A guide to publishing NPM packages meant to be used in Expo and plain React Native apps, especially if your packages depend on Expo libraries
Nov 16, 2020 8 min read Programming, React-Native, Mobile App Development

How to Save Files to a Device Folder using Expo and React-Native

Save files to a device’s internal storage so that it’s publicly visible to other apps with one line of code
Nov 10, 2020 4 min read Programming, React-Native, Mobile App Development

Free, One-Command, Self-Hosted Commento Deployment for a Hugo Site

I couldn’t find a turnkey, one-command solution to self-host my preferred comment section service on my site, so I wrote my own.
Sep 22, 2020 4 min read DevOps

Hiding API Keys on React Native in 10 Minutes with AWS API Gatweway

The popular react-native-google-places-autocomplete library asks you to paste your third-party API keys in frontend code, which is pretty insecure. But you can stay secure without wasting a whole day on a custom workaround. Here’s how.
Sep 7, 2020 7 min read Programming, DevOps