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Introducing Notesnook Gift Cards
Gift your loved ones a Notesnook Gift Card and let them enjoy privacy-focused note-taking.
Abdullah Atta
December 24, 2024
Getting rid of Lerna
A story about how and why we got rid of Lerna for package management in the Notesnook monorepo.
Abdullah Atta
July 18, 2023
Using React Native Skia to Build a 60 FPS Free-hand Drawing App
Let's explore @spotify/react-native-skia by building a fully native, 60 FPS, free-hand drawing app that allows us to change stroke color, width & export the drawing as an SVG file.
Ammar Ahmed
March 22, 2022
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Scoped Storage in React Native: New Android 10 API for File System Access
Up until Android 10 it was possible to get access to the whole user's device. To fix this, Google introduced Scoped Storage API in Android 10.
Ammar Ahmed
January 15, 2022
React Native JSI: Part 2 - Converting Native Modules to JSI Modules
React Native JSI seems daunting but JSI is, by far, the best way to deliver native performance. And the best part? No overhead. No unnecessary Promises.
Ammar Ahmed
August 11, 2021
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Introducing Notesnook Importer 2.0
Supporting Evernote web clips, Obsidian file embeds, and a lot of bug fixes.
Abdullah Atta
July 21, 2023
Using Javascript to Render Invalid HTML
HTML is an extremely flexible markup language but that doesn't mean there are no rules. Over the course of many years, browser engines became quite resilient to malformed HTML. But they weren't ready for Javascript.
Abdullah Atta
May 24, 2022
NeutralinoJS: The Next Best Alternative to Electron & Tauri
NeutralinoJS was not a new idea — instead of packaging the whole Node + Chromium with every app, why not reuse the already installed browser each OS comes with?
Abdullah Atta
January 22, 2022
React useRef Hook for Dummies: How to Use useRef Correctly with Examples
React useRef hook is much more 'useful' than you might think at first. useRef is especially useful when you need to access functions of a component.
Ammar Ahmed
October 09, 2021
React Native JSI: Part 1 - Getting Started
React Native JSI (Javascript Interface) is the new layer that helps in communication between Javascript and Native Platforms easier and faster.
Ammar Ahmed
June 28, 2021