When React Native Reanimated nodes get evaluated
3 min readAug 8, 2020
React Native Reanimated is a reimplementation of React Native’s Animated library. It is powerful and removes many limitations the latter has. However, it lacks good documentation and is difficult for beginners to start. In the past couple of weeks, I spent some time playing with this library to see when an animated node gets evaluated / updated in different scenarios. After many experiments, I figured several things out. Let’s have a look at them.