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What's the best React Native list for your use case? @galaxies.dev shares his opinions on the best React Native list and the others worth considering: expo.dev/blog/what-is...

expo.devWhat is the best React Native list component?Lists are everywhere in React Native, but you’ve got to be careful which package you select if you don’t want to ruin your performance.

7/11/24, 5:15 pm7 reposts58 likes

Great tip!

Thanks for reading Isak!

worth noting, FlashList slightly cheats the rules of React and reuses components, which sometimes leads to unexpected/invalid state unless you key things manually

@dingus.business

Yea this was a pretty huge gotcha that I was surprised wasn't documented in the early days. But still easy to swap it in and not realize

@robeberhardt.bsky.social

📌

@hiddensly.bsky.social

Thank you! I’m using Draftbit which uses Expo underneath, I’ll have to check out the list implementation underneath.

Let us know what you find under there!

@hiddensly.bsky.social

Turns out there's a FlashList component available in Draftbit! docs.draftbit.com/docs/flashlist

docs.draftbit.comFlashListThe FlashList component is used as a child of the Fetch component to display a list or grid of items from an API endpoint. It works like a List . FlashList is made by Shopify and is optimized for larg...