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Building an Mini Instagram clone with React Native

Jude Ganihu on June 05, 2019

WHY REACT NATIVE? With React Native, we can build native mobile applications for multiple platforms using JavaScript and React. Importan...
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mrcflorian

Great article, thanks for sharing! You should try to integrate Firebase for a super straightforward way to do this a fully fledged app (we use the approach in our Social Network React Native app)

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Jude Ganihu

Thank you for your contribution, I should do that. Thanks

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0xAirdropfarmer

The way this tutorial article is structured into different UI implementation headings with code snippets is simply gold. One can learn a great deal about react native with the expo ecosystem and react native packages with its use case following this article. The article is beginner friendly and anyone can easily implement their own version of instagram clone while briefly going through this article. For someone who wants simplicity in a development environment, they can always choose from popular, highly customizable and feature full React Native Instagram clone templates out there.

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Saulo Vargas • Edited

Great article. But I never found an example with Video feeds, I think they are much more complex than this.

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Jude Ganihu

You are right, this is just a general overview, to handle the intricate parts a video or series of posts in parts will be required. I should be doing that also.