Christian Brevik

Christian Brevik

Hi there! I'm a developer living in Trondheim. Find me on Github or Twitter.

React Native and the Array.reverse bug

21 September, 2018

The news that broke a couple of days ago about the -bug that occurs in the newly released iOS 12 was a bit scary. I first learnt about it…

Your first VS Code extension

08 March, 2018

It’s not a secret that VS Code is becoming a very popular choice as editor for many developers . I like the editor because it is snappy, and…

Easier React Native upgrades with patch-package

19 August, 2017

Anyone who has worked with React Native (RN) for some time know that the core contributors are not afraid of introducing breaking changes…

Setup for fast.ai course

31 July, 2017

Over the summer I looked a bit into practical machine learning, and decided to follow the fast.ai course . Their emphasis is more on the…

Intro to React Native (NDC Oslo 2017)

08 July, 2017

At NDC Oslo 2017 I held a talk about React Native, which was basically an intro to the technology from a web developers perspective. If…

Easy TypeScript with React Native

16 May, 2017

Just here for the code sample? Check it out here . Trying to combine TypeScript (TS) with React Native (RN) has historically been kind…

You should check out Yarn

24 October, 2016

Not too long ago, Facebook announced Yarn , a new package manager for JavaScript. Yarn has been developed as an alternative to npm…

Google Tag Manager and A/B-testing with React Native

24 April, 2016

It’s kind of funny how sometimes an open source project never really stops evolving. It definitely should though, don’t get me wrong. There…

React Native InApp Billing

09 February, 2016

I just released v1.0 of my React Native Billing library. Sometimes the things you make for your own needs, is useful for other people as…

Google Analytics on React Native

30 December, 2015

Over the Christmas weekend I decided to sit down and finally write a React Native bridge for Google Analytics . The pure JavaScript variant…

Remote debugging ASP .NET in Visual Studio 2013

03 April, 2015

Lately I’ve been working on stabilizing an application for a client on a test server. Sometimes the server logs won’t give you the answer…

vNext tools on OS X

26 October, 2014

This weekend I did talk on SOLID at the Knowit Developer Summit 2014 in Stockholm. These five principles are well known to most ASP.NET…