If you’re a seasoned React Native developer, you may have been burned by the fact that certain React behaviours just don’t work as you’d expect. We’ve all tried to use useLayoutEffect on our RN projects, only to find that it doesn’t quite behave how the React docs describe it.
All of that will change with the new event loop coming to React Native as part of the effort to bring React Native closer to Web APIs.
Strap in for a wild ride where we dig into the depths of how the event loop currently works, how it will change, and what this means practically for us as React and React Native developers.
This talk has been presented at React Advanced Conference 2024, check out the latest edition of this React Conference.