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Rafael Mendiola
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React Native developer, I like to make my own products
Oh yeah I think we talked at some point right? 😅
August 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Subscribe. Someone who knows my pain.

At work we use Storybook with React Native Web for our design system library. Gave a talk about it here:

youtu.be/jkQOBlkAFfA?...
Rafael Mendiola & Kyle Rosenberg (Chain React 2024)
YouTube video by Infinite Red
youtu.be
August 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I like this slide
July 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
It was great seeing you there!!
July 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Wow that's amazing! I love the video of how it was found
June 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This one is better
June 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Reposted by Rafael Mendiola
i made a chart
June 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I recently did something similar, open-meteo doesn't require an API key: open-meteo.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This article has a lot of best practices, which have helped me out. I think it's really important to dig into the full capabilities of the tools you use.

www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
Claude Code Best Practices
A blog post covering tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments.
www.anthropic.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Custom slash commands dramatically improve the developer experience. You could maintain a document with useful prompts, but accessing them via /commands makes you more invested in creating reusable workflows. It's like using a prompt as a function.
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You can still use images in the context of your conversation with Claude Code. I thought I'd lose the ability to use images switching to a terminal tool. But you can copy and paste images into Claude Code just like with Cursor.
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Sub-agents solve the biggest friction with AI coding tools. The main friction is running out of context. Sub-agents let you parallelize work and save context since each has its own context. Just tell Claude to use sub-agents in your prompt.
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Claude Code's planning approach is much better than Cursor. The way it responds in chat gives me confidence that it's breaking down work into tasks properly. Instead of jumping straight to implementation, it reads files first, thinks through the problem, and makes a plan.
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Oh yeah, making a plan is great. You can ask the agent to keep improving and improving the plan, and it will give it some really nice rails to execute well on. I'm glad it was helpful!
June 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM