Unveiling Ignite 2

Your Co-Pilot for Building React Native Apps

We’re excited to announce the release of Ignite 2 beta! Over the past six months the Ignite team has been working hard to revamp Ignite into something even better.

Why?

We have teams of various sizes and we want this experience:

Bob: Hey, can you add maps to my React Native project for me? Alice: Here ya go, and here’s an example map with some notes in comments. Bob: Thanks! That’s exactly what I needed.

We’re developers, by the third time we’ve helped someone add X to their project, we knew we had to do something better.

What was Ignite 1.0?

Ignite 1.0 was a resounding success of examples jammed into one app. With over 4,000 stars on GitHub and coverage from several blog articles, Ignite was launched into React Native fame. It wasn’t the ideal experience, but it was a start.

With success, we got a lot of feedback. We learned a few things quickly:

A kitchen sink of stuff — while useful, is always more than needed. People want to easily remove a few things to make room for their own opinions. Starting project-friendly practices framework is great, but as the app develops the two inevitably grow apart. Not every opinion can fit in a single project. Some technologies are mutually exclusive.

Curing these three things became the focus of Ignite 2.0. Our job was to convert the springboard into a co-pilot.

TADAAAA 🎉