RNR 224 - React Native Web on Next.js with Fernando Rojo

welcome back to react native Radio podcast brought to you by the metaverse experience your Racist uncle in 3D VR episode 224 react native web on next.js with Fernando [Music]

Roo so maen how was teaching your react native course for Gaz of Sky Geeks it actually went really well very surprised by the high level they had and how quick they kind of grasp this new topic of react native they're usually coming through a crash course on react and JavaScript specifically and most of them decided to kind of push themselves and do react native and typescript and and they killed it the final projects were great I tweeted about it feel free to go to my Twitter and check it out actually

something that was pretty cool out of all this two of them got well are in the process of interviewing for react native jobs so I'd like to say my little crash course kind of helped them get that but you know it was all their abilities and their eagerness to kind of learn so if you're out there looking for contractors I think they're they're really good at what they do that's awesome you know taking a react native crash course going from zero to being being hired at a company and this was my first time having like a technical talk in Arabic

fully Arabic so that's right yeah how did that go did you uh stumble a bit on that not really I think they have their own dialect that's different than mine so I think that was kind of there were some parts where I had to stop and give like slang words so that we can kind of get the message across but it went pretty well it was you know kind of surprised myself all right well things have changed a little bit today our friendly CTO and host of the podcast is out sick so I am John Major I'm going to be your uh

host for today I'm going to try to make up for that loss but I am a software engineer here at infinite red and also the Editor in Chief of the react native newsletter I am joined by my bright co-host Mazen as well as our guest Fernando Rojo who I will introduce in just a moment Mazen lives in Durham North Carolina he's a former pro soccer player and coach and is a senior react

native engineer here also at infinite red what is up Mazen not much I like the the bright today maybe it's the background you can kind of see behind me so Fernando Rojo is the co-founder and CTO at beat gig a Marketplace for booking artists he graduated from upen in 2019 and was part of a y combinators winter 19 batch his first startup poto

shoes partnered with J crew and was featured in Forbes NBC and Huffington Post today Fernando maintains a number of react native libraries including moti and dripsy I have no idea how you have all that time but Fernando how's it going good it's it's great to be here awesome all right well this episode is sponsored by infinite red infinite red is a premier react native design and development agency located fully remote in the US and Canada if you're looking for for reactnative expertise you can learn more on our website at infinite. r/ reactnative

don't forget to mention that you heard about us through the react native Radio podcast also Imagine working with this amazing team uh so feel free to go to careers. infinit Red all right so let's uh get into today's topic Mazen you want to kick us off yeah so today's topic is react native web on nextjs Fernando tell us a little bit about your story I hear it's an interesting one where did you grow up um you we John Major just introduced you went to upen and started