It's happening. I'm creating a React Native Advent calendar this year 🎅 Starting December 1st through 25th, expect a daily dose of tips, tools, or libraries. Stay tuned for the festive details!

AI has reached a new level: Troll. Claude Code added this while helping me write some content.

Working on a sneaky app builder tool with InstantDB backend 👀 Anyone already worked with Instant?

TIL You can actually debug a production React Native iOS app using the console app and find helpful logs!

Fron Expo MCP server to Godot games and even Flutter running inside @Expo.dev - lots to unpack in the new podcast👇

Creating a "Recommended RN Libraries" video - what's your go-to stack and the essential React Native libraries you can't live without?

Looks like Uniwind is going to be a great solution for Tailwind in React Native 🔥

Might do livestreams again more often - any topics you'd like to see? Kinda want to keep it easy, maybe just try out new stuff and talk with you so no big show or prep, just raw stuff ✌️

Releasing my new app without any marketing channel

Discovered a new API testing tool and love the simplicity. Just my calls, and a well formatted response 😍 If you want to get away from Postman or Insomnia, check out Yaak for a great alternative 🔥

This is how you can have platform specific code with Expo Router in your app folder 👇

Didn't know how easy it is to get LLMs return perfect structured data 😱 Just use useObject() from the Vercel AI SDK and let Zod do the work 💪

Anyone interested in a video about the new React Native IAP package? Looks solid to me, although I'm usually a big fan of using RevenueCat This is the package btw github.com/hyochan/rea...

"Good morning. Why is your app not on the New Architecture?"

Had a great time chatting about @expo.dev SDK 54 with @galaxies.dev 🚀 Thanks for having me on the Rocketship Podcast👇

🛒 Extremely chunky new tutorial video from @galaxies.dev about how to build the Amazon App with Expo, Vapi, NativeWind, and TanStack: youtu.be/1P9dZZcRcao?... During Prime Day no less!

Expo Router has been such a game-changer for me. It's still incredible to see how fast I can go from nothing to an app with nested drawer and tabs 😱 I don't think I can ever go back to a different way of routing... If you are not using it - why? What's stopping you?

It was almost too easy to include 3d files with Filament from @margelo_io in my next React Native clone 😎

🔥 React Native just dropped 0.80. WWDC brought surprises for mobile devs. And there’s a free alternative to EAS 👀 Here’s what’s happening this week in React Native 👇

Next React Native clone will include @stripe payments - among many other epic features 🔥

The Legacy Arch is frozen 🥶 Learn why & more React Native updates from the AppJS 👇

Wow, this might become my new go-to React Native debugging tool 😱

Exciting new packages while the AppJS is about to start 🔥 Learn more in the new Rocket Ship podcast episode.

Here we go again 👀 Next clone app will have some epic functionality 🔥

Get started with @expo.dev Router v5 today! 🔐 Learn about the new authentication flows 🔥 Build your first React Server Components 🚀 Work with secret keys and deploy your API Everything in my brand new course on Galaxies.dev 👨‍💻

🎉 NEW: Build an AI Caption Editor with React Native! What you'll learn: 👨‍💻 Work with Convex Backend 🎙️ Use ElevenLabs for AI generated audio 🔒 Auth with Clerk 🪲 Debug with Sentry 🔥 Expo Router Navigation 🌈 Style with NativeWind + a lot of fun 🚀

It's funny how I post one video about my React Native frustration and everyone on YT instantly screams IONIC at me

I think RSC and API Routes with @expo Router are underrated. Working on a fresh @galaxies_dev course to cover the v5 changes 🔥

TIL you can have the React Native tab bar on the side and it looks better than expected 😱 Did you know this? Great option especially if you target web as well, just add a Dimensions check! Also using tabBarVariant: 'material' here which gives the Android look.

Are we living in update Hell right now? Diving into these thoughts & more in the new @galaxies_dev Podcast episode.

New: React Native Essentials 🔥 Starting this series with a closer look at @expo.dev Router Drawer Navigation.

Kicking off a fresh video series tomorrow - back to essentials! 🔥

Bc you know it's true

React Native AI Apps can't get easier. Here's how with @expo.dev and the @vercel.com AI SDK 🔥

Have you tried the new @expo.dev UI components? What are your thoughts?

"We're all using React Native now."

The new Expo Router v5 prefetch is actually awesome 🔥

Apple lost in court - here's how to turn it into your gain 🤑

Do you agree? iOS and Android are just different in some areas, IDK if this could be possible at all!

Rate my new @expo.dev folder structure - wyt?

Finally React Native UI Components 😍 @expo.dev made it possible with SDK 53

New video drop tomorrow covering all the updates from @expo.dev SDK 53! 🔥

"Simon, do you actually make money with apps?"

Planning a new BIG Galaxies course and need your help! We'll build a fully functional React Native @expo.dev app, but which backend should we use? 🤔 Firebase, Supabase - or something completely different?

Did I have enough with React Native? 😱 Listen to my new podcast episode to find out.

Making money from your app just got a lot easier The new @RevenueCat.com Paywall editor is ❤️

Are build errors the worst?

Even the smallest snippet can change the course of your app. These 7 React Native and @expo.dev snippets will set your apps on fire 🔥

Stop using Context for everything in React Native. It’s tempting, but it slows down your app and gets messy - fast. ✅ Use Zustand or Jotai for fast, scalable state ✅ Reserve Context for true cross-cutting concerns ✅ Bonus: Memoize heavy components + watch FPS I break this down on Galaxies.dev ✌️

How big should an MVP be?