Paying Cold, Hard Cash for Open Source Contributions
May 2, 2019
At Formidable, open source is at the heart of everything we do. We help our clients build mission-critical systems using open source technologies like React, Node, GraphQL, and dozens of others. In return we contribute back to these projects, and give our engineers dedicated time to maintain more than 70 of our own open source projects that others can build upon.
But recently we’ve come to realize this is not enough.Hooked
October 25, 2018
We're very excited about what we learned at React Conf and we wanted to share our take on React Hooks, a new React API that gives React functional components the ability to use state and controlled side effects without the need for any additional helper libraries.
Introducing Appr: A New Review Workflow for Mobile Developers
March 29, 2017
Appr builds pull requests in your Create React Native App project, deploys the changes to Expo, and posts a link and a QR code to your PR, so you can run the app on your device or emulator in seconds! I'm sure you'll agree: code reviews are a useful tool in a development...React Native App Stack, March 2017
March 14, 2017
This week, we started writing a new React Native app. With every new project, I experience a mix of giddy excitement and intense anxiety: an opportunity to right all past mistakes, and a chance to make a thousand new ones. Discussing greenfield tech choices inevitably devolves into...Introducing Whackage
December 1, 2016
We love React Native. Sometimes, though, it doesn't feel like it reciprocates your love. One such time is when working with codebases that span across multiple repositories. When you want to make changes to a package your app depends on, achieving that snappy hot-reloading workflow you’ve grown...London: Formidable Has Landed.
September 29, 2016
Hi there. I'm Jani Eväkallio, Formidable's new VP of Mobile Engineering. Along with my arrival, today I have the great pleasure of announcing the opening of Formidable in London. In my previous life I was the lead engineer at Futurice London, an early React and React Native advocate,...