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Early React Native Adoption
- Sunil Pai and a friend faked a React Native app based on a blog post.
- Vijaya Christopher Cheeda gave them repo access, making theirs potentially the first production deployment in India.
Joining the React Team
- Sunil Pai frequently visited the React team's floor during lunch breaks at Oculus.
- This led to discussions about React's performance in VR, eventually resulting in him joining the team.
React Contributions
- Sunil Pai helped ship React 16.9 and created a one-liner codemod to fix unsafe method name prefixes.
- He also developed the testing API 'act' for hooks and researched image and stylesheet suspense.