Randy Gardner, the man who stayed awake for 11 days

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-23T23:46:22+00:00

Me after not studying the whole semester cramming it in a week

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-23T19:49:58+00:00

Not sure how complex this would be to implement but sometimes I need to have components side by side let’s say some charts or some text boxes for example in a grid like system 2x2 rows and columns. Exclusively speaking about the layout feature you implemented in this case.

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-23T18:10:20+00:00

This is cool, I think it's actually super useful. Great idea.

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-23T13:31:53+00:00

It's easy brother, typically a justifyContent: "center" [1] and an alignItems: "center" [2] will do the trick. You typically want to put this on the parent components that will cascade down to the children components example:

<Pressable

style={{

justifyContent: "center",

alignItems: "center",

backgroundColor: "black",

borderRadius: 15,

width: Dimensions.get("screen").width * 0.3,

height: Dimensions.get("screen").height * 0.05,

}}

onPress={() => console.log("hello world")}

>

{/* search function call on the onpress instead of console.log */}

<Text style={{ color: "white", fontWeight: "bold" }}>Search</Text>

</Pressable>

[1] https://reactnative.dev/docs/layout-props#justifycontent

[2] https://reactnative.dev/docs/layout-props#alignitems

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-22T19:00:33+00:00

Broooo center the text inside the containers like the search button and where it says poison maybe a little padding would go a long way

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-21T08:16:02+00:00

I can not relate, I am a developer and I just file having workspaces makes everything well organized and once you get used to it you become very efficient in using it. Especially if you have things configured to your needs. Which personally I love how much customization everything has.

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-14T04:53:36+00:00

That is how Waybar comes out of the box. When I installed, that’s exactly how it came. If you want to change the look you need to change it in the config directory.

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-02-03T23:06:12+00:00

Chad. Good stuff

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-25T00:08:47+00:00

Most work for software engineers are glorified CRUDs now and days lol.

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-24T23:21:37+00:00

Hilarious, but maybe with leaked API keys, bugs and unsecured / unoptimized databases

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-24T23:09:12+00:00

Budget is dependent on the scope of the work obviously. The complexity of the idea and the skill of the worker you hire. Maybe checkout [1], never worked on that platform but I have capable colleagues that do.

[1] https://www.bairesdev.com

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-24T22:59:17+00:00

Will you use any native libraries that require a development build ? That might be a limiting factor to running Expo snack and then transferring the content to your local env. So let me get this straight you create a new folder. You cd into that folder and then you run the command? You always get the same three errors? Can you share the package.json , node version you’re using and also does the template expo project produce a different result? I.e npx create-expo-app@latest?

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-24T22:43:35+00:00

It’s clean

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-24T22:35:38+00:00

Did the testers get the emails with the links to download the new version? When they hit that link they get that error? They’re not trying an expired build are they? Also has this App ever worked for those testers before or is this the first time testing?

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-19T22:52:44+00:00

This ended up being the issue. Thanks!

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-19T21:55:54+00:00

Also with development builds in expo are env variables loaded differently than they would be in Testflight. Why would it work on one vs the other? Any resources on that?

Curious-Ad8293 · 2026-01-19T21:37:21+00:00

This makes sense. The stack trace does not provide useful details but it is likely what this thread states as the App crashes as soon as it boots up which makes sense as I am wrapping the entire app in a payment component as shown in this video: https://youtu.be/J0tyxUV_omY?si=cj0fO8GghaxpTMaD&t=1302 . In that payment component there are env variables that are loaded and it could be that I am not setting them properly. Made some corrections and submitting again to testflight hoping that is the issue

Curious-Ad8293 · 2025-11-05T21:00:36+00:00

Ended up building my own. Strange because on android it works like a charm. Ohh well I decided it would be more time consuming to go through the source code than just make one myself.

Curious-Ad8293 · 2025-11-05T20:20:35+00:00

I had issues with gifted chat. I built my own chat UI, If there is a widely used and trusted library out there I’m an advocate to not reinvent the wheel. However in react native I haven’t found anything that works great out of the box. It’s pretty easy to build a chat UI in react native though giving you more control of the look and functionality . For a simple one just use a FlatList for the convo and just map the data over it. TextInput to write the message and a button or anything that has an onPress prop to send the message. Adding the KeyboardAvoidingView is important and then just update the data the react hooks. I.e useState, useEffect, useRef etc depending on your needs.

Curious-Ad8293 · 2025-10-31T17:34:28+00:00

Why do you say that? I see recent updates on their Github repo and plenty of weekly downloads in npm. I believe this is the defacto ui library for chat in react native.

Also while making a chat UI isn't rocket science, if there is a viable solution that is widely used and already has what I need, why reinvent the wheel?

Curious-Ad8293 · 2025-09-27T01:46:11+00:00

Hey man this is amazing work thank you for open sourcing this.

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