🆕 This PR from @nishan.dev adds CSS grid support to react native 🙌 It's not possible to overstate how massive this is for all of us. Future generations will celebrate Nishan Bende Day 🐐 github.com/facebook/yog...

I'm preparing my Star Wars themed talk on TanStack DB for next week's React(Native) Kiel meetup. If you're around in Kiel on Monday evening, feel free to join us for some nerdy fun! ⚛️ www.meetup.com/kiel-react-n...

And, coming later in React Native 0.83, you'll be able to profile and understand your app more intuitively, with native support for the Performance panel and Network panel in React Native DevTools.

Folks are downloading react-native on npm over 4 million times a week, that 100% growth from last React Conf!

The iOS queue times for Free plan users on @expo.dev were around 4 hours at this time last week. We increased our Mac capacity today. We're seeing <10 min queue times right now. ⚡ Subscribers are seeing 0 min queue times.

𝝠 Expo SDK 54 is LIVE 🚀 ◆ React Native 0.81 ◆ Precompiled RN for iOS → faster clean builds ◆ iOS 26 Liquid Glass icons + views ◆ Android 16 target, edge-to-edge default ◆ Router v6 native tabs ◆ Updates: header overrides, progress, reload screen ◆ So much more... expo.dev/changelog/sd...

📣 The next edition of React(Native) Kiel is coming up next Monday, Aug. 25th! I’ll be co-hosting with @dbanck.com & @baumstumpf.bsky.social and we’ve lined up two talks you won’t want to miss 👇 www.meetup.com/kiel-react-n...

SDK 54 beta is out 🚀 ◆ RN 0.81 + React 19.1 ◆ Precompiled React Native for iOS → ⚡ faster builds ◆ iOS 26 Liquid Glass icons + Expo UI ◆ Android 16 edge-to-edge + predictive back ◆ Updates to EAS Update + Autolinking ◆ Final release w/ Legacy Arch Details in the changelog: expo.dev/changelog/sd...

We are excited to announce the release of React Native 0.81! 🎉 This new version brings Android 16 support, faster iOS builds (experimental), and several bugfixes. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/08...

When you get back after the weekend and find out your iOS simulator has been screen recording ... since Wednesday 🤣

It’s amazing how easy it is these days to build a custom flow for over-the-air updates. Just take the useUpdates hook from Expo Updates and wrap a nice little UI around it. Smooth banner → update check → ready state → tap → reload. Awesome, isn't it?

Reanimated 4 is out now! 🥳 Shared element transitions are planned for a future release. Definitely looking forward to that!

React Native Reanimated 4 is now stable and ready for production 🐎 Featuring CSS Animations & Transitions, multithreading with React Native Worklets and more. youtu.be/Wr2fOM_xD2I

Announcing React Native Screens Overhaul ✨ ↳ Native Bottom Tabs on iOS and Android ↳ iOS 26 ↳ Support for the New & Legacy Architecture ↳ More native primitives coming in the future Currently in Alpha 🚀

WebGPU is an amazing piece of technology, allowing for truly cross-platform graphics and GPGPU programming. It's being used by frameworks like Three.js and Tensorflow.js to accelerate their internals ⚡ However, when we try to connect libraries together, we soon hit a limit... 🧵 THREAD 🧵 (1/n)

We did it! You can finally use third-party libraries in worklets - with `react-native-worklets`. Jump in the thread to learn more 👇

Just gonna put this out there and see if anything happens. I'm currently looking for a new full time Software Engineer position. I've got strong chops in React, React Native, Python and some .NET. ashtonlance.com #opentowork #hiring

Anyone know a good project or resource on using React Native Web with SSR? Or to ask it differently: how would you approach this topic? Context: We want to rebuild a web project with strong SEO requirements and dynamic content. We already have a great RN app and want to reuse as much as possible.

I’m super happy that we have another client for which we can migrate from react-native-cli to the Expo Prebuild / CNG workflow 😌

Was great to grab a burger and beer with @woldri.ch & @baumstumpf.bsky.social before the React(Native) Kiel meetup yesterday 🍔🍺

React Native 0.80 is now available! This release includes React 19.1, stability improvements to our JavaScript API, freezes the Legacy Architecture, and more. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/0...

I think this really shows off one of React Native’s big strengths. You can use native elements and get the latest shiny features almost for free, but if it doesn’t work with your app or UI, you can easily opt out. Compared to native iOS, where it often feels like you don’t have much of a choice.

Don't update your React Native ARIA to 0.2.11 version. It contains a trojan tomaszs2.medium.com/react-native...

📱🔍 Ever wanted to know which Android apps are built with Expo? @leondvlpmnt.bsky.social made a tool that scans your phone and finds out. Blog post + open source tool: expo.dev/blog/which-a...

Big step towards React Native moving fully to the new architecture! github.com/reactwg/reac...

App.js is about to start 😬 Come and say hi. What are you most excited about this year?

We made it to Krakow. 12 hour journey ✅ AppJS conf can start now 🤓🚀

I recently stumbled across this little tool from @frankcalise.bsky.social to list all your Expo Router routes. Just type npx expo-router-sitemap and voilà, there are your routes. Super useful 🙌

Debugging in React Native got easier today. We now have an official integration with @sentry.io so you can see errors and replays directly in your EAS Deployments. No more digging through logs or guessing at app state. 📖 expo.dev/blog/diagnos...

There should never be a prop called 'shouldRender' in React.

I'm trying to make the fastest Mac app you've ever seen. So of course I'm building it in javascript with React Native. It'll be an app for managing Github issues, PRs, discussions. 🔌 Local first 🛜 Works offline ⚡️ Instant interactions 💾 App is 50mb, 100mb ram 👐 Open source

App.js Conf 2025 is getting closer and I’m definitely feeling the hype again. To make it easy to connect with people this year, I put together this starter pack. If you’ll be there and you’re not on it yet, let me know! I’d love to meet as many of you React Native folks as possible.

The game is on: we are bringing WebGPU to React Native. This update enables: 🐎 Seamless Reanimated integration for UI thread rendering 🧊ThreeJS and React Three Fiber are a major focus to bring stunning 3d experiences to React Native. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9t-...

Anyone know a good resource on integrating Android Fragments with React Native? Bonus points if it’s with Expo Modules. Context: I have a bunch of Android fragments and want to use them in an Expo app.

🥓 Expo Router v5 is packed with powerful new features to help you build beautiful full-stack native apps. ◆ Improved Errors and Logging ◆ API Routes in Production ◆ React Server Functions (Beta) ◆ ....and way more! All the deets are in the blog from @bacon.bsky.social: expo.dev/blog/expo-ro...

🙌 SDK 53 is out now! It's a chunky release so take your time combing through the post below. Couple highlights: ◆ The New Arch is now default everywhere ◆ Edge-to-edge is default for all android projects ◆ expo-background-task (no more background-fetch) ◆ expo-maps alpha! expo.dev/changelog/sd...

🚨 heads up! Starting today, Apple now requires all apps submitted to App Store Connect to be built with Xcode 16 or later using the iOS 18 SDK. If you’re using Expo SDK 50–53, you’re good — just make sure your builds are using an Xcode 16+ image. Learn more: expo.dev/blog/apple-s...

Had some fun today deep-diving into Expo config plugins 🔌 Ran into an issue this week with an outdated plugin, so I used my day off today to fix it and learn more about how it all works. A few takeaways from the adventure below. 🧵👇

Say hello to typegpu-confetti: buttery smooth, fully customizable, and rendered 100% on the GPU via TypeGPU + react-native-wgpu. 🎉

We’ve been deep into react-native-svg for over 3 years now. 🖼️ In that time, we’ve seen it used in all kinds of ways. Some are smart, some… not ideal. So, we wrote a post on when RN SVG is a good fit, and when you might not actually need it.👇 blog.swmansion.com/you-might-no...

🆕 We just released the SDK 53 beta. Please go test it out and make sure it doesn't introduce any regressions for you. Just a heads up that we’ll be releasing fixes and improvements during the ~2 week beta period — some of these may include breaking changes. expo.dev/changelog/sd...

React Native 0.79 is now available! This release includes several performance improvements. Metro is now >3x faster to cold start! Android apps will also be faster thanks to changes to JS bundle compression. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/04...

I’m currently working on two React Native apps. One is 6.5 and the other over 7 years old. For the latter, I did the “react-native init” myself. It was my first professional contact with React Native. It's wild how fast our little babies grow up. Do you remember your first touchpoint with RN?

🥳 Incredible to see another Expo app hit #1 in the app store. Nothing makes us happier here at Expo! 🗓️ We have a livestream scheduled with @reedharmeyer.bsky.social from @skylight.social for April 16th. So come ask all your questions about AT Protocol & hitting #1: youtube.com/live/fyoRgvi...

One month of intense work and preparation, one month of parental leave. Time flies! But now I’m back in daily business. Hello again, internet people, what did I miss?

If your React Native / @expo.dev builds suddenly started failing today, you’re probably on Xcode 16.3. It’s a known issue — downgrading to Xcode 16.2 is the current workaround. Details + steps here: github.com/facebook/rea...

Sorry React Native libs maintainers, I just opened a lot of issues on GH to raise awareness about edge-to-edge support 😬 If you need help to add support for it, you already know where to find me 👋

Insane performance guys! 60fps all the way Stack: - @tanstack.com react-query - expo-router & expo-image from @expo.dev - legend-list by Jay Meistrich PS: You see a loading because I am manually adding a "wait(500)" 🎥 Youtube link: youtube.com/live/cEConO4...

I made an app that opens faster than any Mac app I've seen, loading a 5500 line markdown file instantly. It's not Swift. Not Rust. Not C++. It's JavaScript! react-native-macos is INSANELY fast 🤯 And 10% the size of an Electron app! I had no idea RN on desktop is this good.

We’ve worked with several legacy React Native apps lately. Clients reached out for different reasons, but the root causes were often the same. One pattern stood out: Every single one of these apps was a bare React Native app.