⚛️ React Native Wrapped 2025: the year we entered our polishing era Performance got faster. Tooling got sharper. And the New Architecture saga is complete. Read the full companion recap from our very own @joshuayoes.com 👇 shift.infinite.red/react-native...

2025 was big for React Native, Expo, and of course us here at Infinite Red.

You never want to miss a @tdesseyn.bsky.social episode of RNR 🔥

Always good to hear from @tdesseyn.bsky.social about the hiring landscape. Don’t miss it!

🖤❤️ RNR 348 ❤️🖤 From Ionic Evangelist to… React Native Content Creator?? This week we’re joined by special guest Simon Grimm from @galaxies.dev! 🪐 Tune in for a powerful episode packed with trends, insights on the future of React Native, and more!

Ready to supercharge your apps? 📱🚀 @gantlaborde.com joins @mazenchami.dev on React Native Mornings to talk about on-device AI with React Native! 🗓️ Wednesday · 9am PT 📺 Live on YouTube Set a notification👇 www.youtube.com/live/9ClulS-...

pnpm is really shielding us all from Shai Hulud, huh? Massive W.

We just shipped text recognition for React Native MLKit!

It’s all just text in files.

I didn’t know they could make a Thursday Night Football that’s enjoyable to watch. This is great. They should try it again next week.

📰 React Native Newsletter Issue 190 📰 A new issue of RNN is hot off the presses! Featured in this edition: ✅ @expo.dev App Awards ✅The @react.dev Foundation ✅ React 19.2 ✅ Lots of other great news!! Read the latest newsletter over on our website 👇 mailchi.mp/infinite/rea...

Geno Smith please score 32 fantasy points tonight pretty please.

Expo 54 support for React Native MLKit is coming soon! Thanks @frankcalise.dev!! Up next: going through the backlog of issues to see if these upgrades fix some problems, and then we're probably gonna keep on adding support for additional modules.

🖤❤️ RNR 347 ❤️🖤 React Native powering smart displays? 👀 This week: @mazenchami.dev sits down with Alex Lanclos of @skylightframe.bsky.social to dig into how they use React Native to bring their smart displays and digital photo frames to life!! 🪄 Listen now 🎧

I wish good things could happen lol

I guess it’s my bad for expecting the democrats to do anything other than double down on losses lol. I thought the pain would at least yield a minor victory.

I’m willing to take 0 points with Freiermuth on my fantasy team if it keeps Rodgers mad tonight.

Expo 55 is still just in canary right now, but as far as I can tell, going from Expo 54 -> Expo 55 is gonna be one of the smoothest transitions we've had in a long time.

We need to figure out how to rebuild our democracy so one man can’t starve millions of families.

Seeing a lot of people — often from engineering directors, VPs, and CTOs… — arguing that it's great that LLMs free up devs from writing code so they can focus on just high level. I got a bone to pick with you all.

I'm excited for this next episode of React Native Mornings with @codewithbeto.dev. Tune in for a cool demo and fun Q&A!

📣 Happening Wednesday! React Native Mornings with @mazenchami.dev is back!! This time we're diving into @expo.dev’s UI magic with their very own @codewithbeto.dev! 📆 Wednesday 11/5 at 9am PT 📺 Live on YouTube 🔔 Set a reminder www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hdw...

I liked this a lot www.jrwinget.com/blog/2025-10...

The millennial urge to update an online status to be song lyrics (I am listening to the Mountain Goats again)

Don't worry about whether your post is banger or a flop. Worry about the imminent coming of Thragrax, the Eater of Souls.

Sports Announcers should be allowed to swear on national TV.

I’m glad they put Aaron Rodgers in the ugliest possible NFL uniform tonight for football night in America.

Just remember, when you request changes on my PR, this is who you’re criticizing.

Broncos really having a moment, huh? Good for them.

Pretty good points all around.

This is a good one.

Want to integrate on-device AI features into your React Native apps? Good news! The talk that our very own @gantlaborde.com and @mazenchami.dev recently gave at @cascadiajs.com is now on YouTube! Don't miss it 👇

React & React Native have officially moved to the React Foundation, a new home for the frameworks under the Linux Foundation. The Foundation will maintain infrastructure, fund contributors, and support community projects. Expo is honored to be one of its founding members. expo.dev/blog/the-rea...

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

it's a good format sir

In the age of Claude will we finally see minimal reproducers in OSS issues? Please say yes.

Cool PDF v0.1.10 has 89% parity with react-native-pdf! Still heavily AI generated. I'll be doing some code auditing and documentation to get it production ready. But it should be in a state where you can evaluate if it'll work for you: github.com/coolsoftware...

Up to about 40% parity with the react-native-pdf API surface! Not bad for a day or so of hacking around with Claude. I think it supports most of my very basic use cases, but I'll keep adding to it when I can. Hopefully other people get some use out of it.

Needed a PDF view for a weekend project, and a lot of the existing options are fairly inactive, so me and Claude are building one. Really enjoying Claude Code + @expo.dev modules It's not production ready by any means, but I'm happy to accept issues and PRs for it: www.npmjs.com/package/@coo...

It took a little longer than we wanted, but Ignite is upgraded to Expo SDK 54! github.com/infinitered/...

🚀 iOS Simulator MCP v1.5.0 is here! Now your agent has more iOS powers. 🛠️ New Tools: open_simulator → Launch the Simulator app install_app → Install .app / .ipa bundles launch_app → Start apps by bundle ID Release notes and demos in 🧵

Been so cool to see JP work on this! It’s awesome.

Look ma, I’m on the podcast!

🖤❤️ RNR 343 ❤️🖤 This week: @chasjhin.bsky.social, Dir. of Engineering at @discord.com, joins our hosts to chat about their adoption of React Native!! Chas opens up about Discord's RN journey, performance challenges, and the New Architecture. Don't miss it 🎙️ infinite.red/react-native...

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...

Damn I love making phone apps

HAPPENING TOMORROW 🚨 Calling all @expo.dev fans!! Tomorrow @mazenchami.dev hosts a special RNM with Gabriel Donadel from Expo! 📆 Wed, Sep 10 | 9am PT 📍 Live on YouTube + X 🔔 Set a reminder www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVW...

I’m (not) sorry if it makes me a nerd but one of my favorite hobbies is trying out new versions of React Native and Expo while they’re in previews. @frankcalise.dev did a great write up on what’s got us excited about @expo.dev SDK 54.