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Mobile GIS workshop

Jaak Laineste, head of mobile, CARTO

Aare Undo, mobile developer, CARTO

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React Native – A new standard for Document Scanning with Scanbot

Introduction

Ever since it was announced 2013, React has been gaining more and more traction in the world of software development. Reactive Design Pattern has become a well-known term in itself, no longer tied to the world of Facebook's React (although the origin of the term is somewhat contested).

Shortly thereafter, in 2015, the development team at Facebook also delved into the world of mobile development, creating their own framework called React Native. I, like most developers, was skeptical at first – yet another platform, just make things more complicated. And for the first few years, I was probably right to be skeptical, as react native has gone through several "phases", introducing radical updates that have brought more pain than pleasure to developers

However, in the past few years, React Native has "grown up" and has proven itself to be a formidable force in the worl