very interesting talk by @lunaleaps.bsky.social from the second day of react conf about RN threading and virtualizating lists, highly recommend watching

Love how much of the latest @reactnative.dev release is removal and deprecations! github.com/facebook/rea... While it might cause downstream friction, it's such a healthy sign for a project to not "just add on" but tackle its technical debt head first! I hope this doesn't stop if we ever get to 1.0!

We just launched a new React Native showcase for Meta Quest VR 🚀 Our demo on Horizon OS features camera, audio, and fluid navigation powered by popular libraries. It proves you can use existing mobile skills to build high-performance VR experiences. Read the full story by @jwr.ski on our blog ⬇️

react team are absolutely cooking reactnative.dev/docs/element...

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🆕 AI apps don’t need the cloud. With react-native-executorch, you can: ♢ Keep data private ♢ Run AI offline ♢ Skip API fees ♢ Get instant responses On-device AI is here. Read about it in the blog post from @swmansion.com → expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

for all the cracked react native devs, please come with with us 🥺

👀 We've had the pleasure of meeting @alfonsocj.com in person at a couple events (including Chain React where he gave a great talk about building with Expo at Coinbase). He would be excellent to work with. Take a look at this role if you're available or your eyes are beginning to wander:

"I'm new to React Native / Expo Router - how should I structure my codebase?" It's a question that comes up quite a bit, and this is an attempt at providing some very concrete suggestions. Already using Router? I'd love to know if there's anything you'd do differently, and why 📝

hello! have you migrated your app to the new arch recently? how'd it go for you? curious to hear success stories, failed attempts, and anything in between!

Expo Go just made it to the metaverse: www.meta.com/experiences/...

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Try out Expo UI on both mobile and TV! 😀 github.com/react-native...

🚀 Expo SDK 54 brings SwiftUI & Liquid Glass to React Native. With Expo UI, you can: ◆ Use native SwiftUI primitives directly in JS ◆ Apply iOS 26’s Liquid Glass effects ◆ Build full apps with SwiftUI containers Blog from @kudochien.dev @nishan.dev @aleqsio.com ↓ expo.dev/blog/liquid-...

Any podcasts or streams want to invite me on to talk about React transitions, suspense, and optimistic?

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...

React Native ExecuTorch 0.5.0 is here & it brings: ✅ Up to 2x faster Whisper performance on iOS ✅ C++ JSI bindings for zero-copy data transfer ✅ LLM structured output using Zod schemas ✅ CLIP model for image→text understanding Go ahead and ship that fully local AI feature you’ve been waiting for ⚛️

Building apps is easier than ever. But shipping? Still brutal. Until now. 🚀 Today we're introducing Expo Launch. The fastest way to get to the app store. ◆ Skip config ◆ Skip certificates ◆ Skip the maze Press “Launch” → land in TestFlight. expo.dev/blog/introdu...

My team is hiring! If you are passionate about improving the developer experience for hundreds of engineers working on React Native, apply now or DM me. www.coinbase.com/careers/posi...

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...

I'm stoked to share that I've joined @expo.dev as a Developer Success Engineer! Thankful for the opportunity to work full-time with the tech, the talented team, and community I admire so much! Today is my second day, and I'm so excited for what's ahead!

🏎️ React Native precompiled SDK 53 vs SDK 54 Speed Test In a real app from one of my projects Thanks to @chrfalch.bsky.social 🫡

Had some spare time this morning and took @expo.dev SDK54's new native tabs in expo-router for a spin. The API feels great. Native tabs are a big piece of the puzzle- and now with native, JS, and custom tabs, it’s easier than ever to match any app’s design language 🚀

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...

Took me a while to get it right on Android from 7 to 16, with edge-to-edge enabled or not, new arch enabled or not, but I fixed the Dimensions API: github.com/facebook/rea... Finally, correct window dimensions & values update on split screen changes! ✨

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great work by @chrfalch.bsky.social and @cipolleschi.bsky.social!

In the blog post from @notbrent.dev and @chrfalch.bsky.social they demonstrate some exciting benchmarks from our own internal testing:

New @expo.dev example! Here's how to upload images from your app to an AWS S3 bucket with Expo Router and EAS Hosting github.com/expo/example...

We've just published Reanimated 4 stable. It took literally months to complete since we started working on it back in 2024. blog.swmansion.com/reanimated-4...

Thanks @expo.dev for letting me publish this fun article 🙂

"Uplink", my album with #zxspectrum music covers made on #m8tracker, is close to completion! Only two more tracks left. I like Gasman's melodies, he's such a great composer youtu.be/7LWiEOJyy7Y

react-native-localize 3.5.0 is out, and it has an @expo.dev plugin! github.com/zoontek/reac...

Devastated to report I read the docs and learned everything I needed to

every time i do a support inbox rotation @expo.dev, it still kind of surprises me how many people: - forget their password, account name, and even what email that they signed up with - lose their 2fa code - have the owner of the org leave the company without transitioning it to anyone

🎉 enableEdgeToEdge opt-in has been merged into React Native github.com/facebook/rea...

A little bit about the tech behind @skylight.social ✨ Absolutely love building with @expo.dev 🙌🏽 #skylight #skylightsocial

Excited to share a new starter for building apps with @expo.dev , @tanstack.com DB & @electric-sql.com TanStack DB is nearing its first alpha so we're fine-tuning, writing docs, and building starters.

test away

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I've been hoping for years that someone would build an event sourcing engine for local-first apps, and now @schickling.dev has done it! Hooray! livestore.dev

Announcing React Native ExecuTorch v0.4.0! 🎉 🧠 More LLMs – Add diverse LLMs to your app 🔧 Tool calling capabilities – Let LLMs interact dynamically with APIs & tools 🔍 Text Embeddings – Convert text to vectors for semantic tasks 🖼️ Image Segmentation — Create masks for objects in images And more!

Big week for React Native coming up. Still time to get tickets for App.js! appjs.co

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

Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers. So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up). Every. Time.

technical highlights: - @expo.dev SDK 53 / RN 0.79 / React 19 - android edge-to-edge mode (thanks @zoontek.me!) - new `Select` menus - new Edit Profile on web + various other dialogs - completely reworked email flow (shoutout @esb.lol) - new img crop lib handmade by @hailey.at - big sheet bugfix

After RFK posted this pic and declared the Caps "my new hometown team," Washington lost 3 straight and have now been eliminated from the NHL playoffs.

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

i know I keep talking about this, but using bluesky on my android with react natives new architecture is so much better. can't wait to ship this.