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Hi 👋, I am Raúl!
Through my journey in the ever-evolving world of app development, I've encountered a striking realization: the landscape of React Native education is brimming with untapped potential. Too often, I've seen the same basic materials recycled, taught by generalist educators more focused on quantity over quality. This approach, while widespread, overlooks the depth and intricacies that React Native offers.
Certainly, there are brilliant minds creating exceptional content, especially in specialized areas like animations. However, these resources, as insightful as they are, represent only a fraction of the vast expanse of advanced topics critical to mobile app development.
This scenario, perhaps, isn't surprising. React Native, still relatively a new technology, hasn't had the time to cultivate a deep pool of experienced educators. The kind of experience that comes from early adoption, diving into the source code, and navigating through myriad challenges.
I was privileged to be one of the early adopters of React Native, which opened doors to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the field, including core contributors. This blend of early exposure and hands-on experience, combined with my passion for teaching, allowed me to contribute to the community since the early days:
- In 2016, I released my first ever open source project, an offline-first library for React Native. To this day, it still averages 60K downloads per month.
- Between 2017 and 2018, I imparted workshops in several renowned conferences, such as React Native EU (Poland), JSHeroes (Romania), and React Alicante (Spain)
- In 2018, I delivered a talk about how we pushed the boundaries of React Native to implement a performant music player for a client.
- In 2020, I built the first ever scrollable bottom sheet that had all animations and gestures running on the native thread. This library went viral quickly, even in Hacker News , reaching 1K stars in GitHub in a matter of days. Due to my lack of time for maintenance back then, a fork (clone) was eventually created, which ended up becoming the de-facto standard for this type of component. I bet you didn't know mine was the original one, did you? 😉
- In 2022, I authored several courses for Meta (formerly Facebook), including React Advanced (with 65K students and 4.7/5 rating), Working with Data in React Native , and The final project of the React Native Specialization.
After all these years, I've reached a pivotal moment. My journey, filled with exploration and countless discoveries, has led me here. Now, I'm excited to channel my passion and energy into what I love the most. Through React Native University, I aim to share the wealth of knowledge and insights I've gathered. It's more than just a platform; it's the culmination of my experiences, ready to be shared with you.