Boost React Native Performance: Optimize Your Image Assets

Boost React Native Performance: Optimize Your Image AssetsBoost React Native Performance: Optimize Your Image Assets

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Tonye Onuoha

pro

• Apr 16

💡 𝗧𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 — 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄? In React Native, 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.

When images are much larger than the size they’re displayed at, React Native still has to 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆, which can slow down rendering and increase memory usage.

🔧 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲:

- Resize images to the approximate display size before shipping them

- Use compressed formats when possible

- Avoid unnecessarily large assets

Optimized assets = smoother apps.

#PerformanceOptimization #React #FullstackDeveloper

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Ariel Jędrzejczak

pro

• Apr 20

Quick shot from my latest GoGetta web design. Animation from 108™ 👀

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Matija Sain

pro

• Apr 20

Cool ☺️ I really like it!

Sisi Guo

• Apr 20

Built with Paper for the #PaperChallenge.

I designed a series of immersive shader effects in Paper, then used Cursor to implement them as a React site. The concept: vertically stacked chips as site navigation, each one revealing a different animated shader as a full background on hover.

Paper lets designers create WebGL shader effects visually, then exports them directly as React components. Cursor handled the implementation. The whole thing came together on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

This unlocks something real for designers. Complex, performant visual effects that used to require a specialist are now part of the design workflow.

Bravo, Paper.

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Sidi Mohammed Taleb

• Apr 20

Loving the outcome of this !! Feels so satisfying

Antoni Kaminski

max

• Apr 20

I’ve been thinking about something lately.

Does a wide tech stack signal versatility — or lack of focus?

I work across React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Three.js on the frontend, and Node, NestJS, Python, and .NET on the backend, along with platforms like Shopify and WordPress.

From SaaS dashboards to e-commerce systems and custom web apps, I’ve built across a pretty broad spectrum.

But here’s the real question:

When someone lands on my work, do they see “this person can build anything” — or “this is exactly who I need”?

Because those are very different signals.

Lately, I’ve been refining how I present my projects — not by reducing what I can do, but by making the value clearer:

→ What problem was solved → What impact it had → Why it mattered for the business

Not just the stack.

Curious how others think about this:

When you evaluate a developer, do you value range — or specialization?

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