One year ago, Infinite Red acquired and relaunched React Native Radio, which is the biggest React Native podcast on earth.

We had some experience with podcasting before with our Building Infinite Red podcast. However, React Native Radio was a whole new challenge! It was much larger (with 4k+ subscribers), published weekly rather than ad-hoc, with a new primary host (yours truly) and all-new co-hosts.

We hit the ground running and have been having a blast. Let’s take a walk back through time to see changes you won’t want to miss!

A Host of Hosts.

Hosting a weekly podcast is quite a commitment! But luckily we had a lot of help.

and I have remained the primary hosts of React Native Radio. She’s currently taking maternity leave and will be back in February. is awesome but her schedule is quite hectic, so she’s taking some time off of the podcast. joins in when he has time, and new co-hosts and have been a great addition to the crew.

We’ve also brought in some spectacular panelists such as

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A Gang of Guests.

All of our guests were amazing this year! Here are a few episodes that really stood out.

RNR 181: React Native Nigeria with Oluwatobi Shokumbi

From wayyy over in Nigeria,

joined the program and talked about React Native Nigeria.

RNR 187: TypeScript!

TypeScript has taken the React Native world by storm, and open source legend and current TypeScript maintainer

came on to talk about it.

RNR 189: Reliable Detox with Rotem

Detox is always a popular topic among React Native developers, and

joined us from Israel to talk about making it more reliable.

RNR 191: Advancements in Expo with Brent Vatne

Expo an amazing company doing some great work in the React Native community, and

joined us to talk about the latest and greatest advancements.

RNR 206: Designing a React Native app with Justin Huskey and Jenna Fucci

What about the design side of building a mobile app?

and came on to talk about the challenges and opportunities of designing for React Native apps.

RNR 210: Exploring Shopify’s Restyle with Haris Mahmood

Shopify is one of the big React Native adopters, and

joined us to talk about how they’re using it.

RNR 211: Transitioning from Native to React Native at Coinbase

Coinbase is another high-profile company that uses React Native. Brent Walter and Jacob Thornton came on to talk about the transition from native to React Native.

A … Lot of Episodes.

We purposely didn’t want to only be an interview show. In fact, fewer than 40% of the episodes in the last year were interviews.

Let’s take a look at some notable non-interview episodes!

RNR 174: Relaunching React Native Radio and the state of React Native

Our first episode upon relaunching React Native Radio was RNR 174.

RNR 183: Debugging techniques

We talked about debugging tips and tricks in RNR 183.

RNR 186: Organizing your source files

Organizing source files is always a popular and hotly contested topic, and we argue about it.

RNR 192: A day in the life of a React Native developer

Co-host

talks about what a day in the life of a React Native developer looks like.

RNR 196: The Art of Code Review

I’m particularly proud of “The Art of Code Review”, which delves into effective pull request reviews. I reference this one often!

RNR 200: Behind the Scenes at React Native Radio

React Native Radio wouldn’t happen without a full team, and we talk to all of them. It’s a great episode and you get to know

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RNR 204: Own your dependencies with Mark Rickert

joined us and talked about “Own your dependencies” (and skydiving?).

RNR 212: React Native EU Roundup

React Native EU 2021 was all-virtual and we did a roundup of the talks.

There’s so much more around the corner.

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Over the past year we added some new episode types, including the periodic “We React to News” episodes, changelog review episodes with every React Native release, and conference roundups.

We have even more ideas for 2021. We’ll be bringing on prestigious guests from Facebook Engineering and other great companies and open source projects, as well as doing more host panel discussions about everything React Native. We’ll do some live shows on YouTube, talk about new libraries and popular library new releases, and there may even be more of my famous tractor stories in the future.

As always, a huge thank you to all of you who have listened to and supported the show. React Native Radio wouldn’t be what it is without you. If you’re new to the podcast, please do subscribe! It’s on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts — just search for “React Native Radio”.

See you next time!