React Celebrates Reaching 50,000 Stars on GitHub — 50,000 stars puts React in 6th place on GitHub, just 2000 behind Angular! To celebrate, a commemorative shirt is being released. Only 1 day remains to register for one. Some interesting history behind React is also covered here.

React Native Quickly: A Free Online Book — Start learning native iOS app development using JavaScript alongside Azat Mardan.

5 Ways to Make Your React Component Code Pretty — Mark Brouch of Walmart Labs shares five of his favorite patterns and shortcuts when writing React components.

🔥 Course: Complete Intro to React (feat. Redux & Router) — Brian Holt (Netflix) introduces you to React plus surrounding ecosystem including: Redux for state management, React Router for navigation and more.

How to Make Money On Your React Native App (Live Online, Oct 3) — Mike Grabowski, a React Native core contributor, is giving an online talk next Monday (Oct 3) on integrating ads into React Native apps.

React Color: A Collection of Color Pickers — Like those in Sketch, Photoshop, Chrome, etc.

Render React and React Router v4 On-Demand with CDN Caching — Uses Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and CloudFront.

React Animations: A Collection of Animations for Inline Style Libraries — Implements all animations from animate.css.

React Native Maps: React Native Mapview Component for iOS + Android — 0.9.0 has been released this week.

Why I'm Not A React Native Developer — React Native “is neither a platform I would develop in, nor a platform I would recommend the use of”. Here, Ariel provides a thorough evaluation of the pros and cons of switching from Swift to React Native, and the arguments against it.