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...

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

This Week In React 239 - Featuring @piaskowyk.bsky.social and @tomekzaw.bsky.social 🤝 Read and subscribe: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/239 ⚛️ - ViewTransition - Suspense - TanStack - Zero - use-mcp - Compiler - Intl-T 📱 - RN 0.80 - Stable APIs - iOS prebuild - shadcn + Expo - InstantDB - Granite

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...

This Week In React 229 Read and subscribe here: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/229 ⚛️ - React Conf - React Router - Next.js Adapters - Redwood - Apollo - Fastify - Vite - Waku 📱 - RN 0.79 - Deep Imports - Expo Fingerprinting - Builder Bob

🐎 Reanimated’s custom props allowlist optimizes updates by categorizing UI & Native props. Learn how to use addWhitelistedUIProps, addWhitelistedNativeProps, setNativeProps, and more to gain more control over your animations.👇 blog.swmansion.com/how-react-na...

Tired of slow React Native apps? 🐢 Let our experts show you how to make them fly! Join our "Performance – analysis & optimization techniques" workshop and learn how to optimize your apps for maximum speed and efficiency. Learn more and buy your ticket: appjs.co#workshops.

💕🖌️ Time to show Unistyles some love, and welcome its creator @jpudysz.bsky.social, as he showcases how Shadow Tree enhances performance in Unistyles 3.0. 👉 https://reactnativeconnection.io

Writing code that lands on devices worldwide is wild. Some React Native libraries hit 500 stars, others go to 5000+. What’s the secret sauce and how did it feel to @tomekzaw.bsky.social and @matipl01.bsky.social in the case of Reanimated? 🚀 hubs.li/Q03888Yt0

Wanna know more about Reanimated 4? 🔴 We're live in @callstack.com's React Universe On Air podcast! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAfJ...

Reanimated 4 is now available in beta, and if you work with animations in React Native, you need to know what’s new 🎧 hubs.li/Q037k1lw0 Here’s what we covered in the newest podcast hosted by @psyche.social featuring @tomekzaw.bsky.social & @matipl01.bsky.social from @swmansion.com Reanimated team:

CSS animations in React Native? Yes, with Reanimated 4! How does this change your approach to animations & what does dropping old architecture mean for you? Stay tuned for the premiere with @psyche.social, @tomekzaw.bsky.social & @matipl01.bsky.social on Feb 19 to find out ➡️ youtu.be/wAfJqFX62ag

It’s time for the Llama generation speed benchmark! 🚀 We’ve compared quantized Llama 3.2 1B QLoRA and the full precision model. Results: ⚡Quantized model: 9.56s ⌛Full precision model: 19.14s It’s 2x faster with quantization! 📈 Try it yourself with our example app ⭐ github.com/software-man...

bittersweet news: today is my last day at Bluesky. 💙 i’m very thankful to the team for letting me learn many new things on the job (including React Native). i’m wishing them luck in the improbable — but inevitable — task of making decentralized social media usable and competitive.

🤝 The React Native team announced 0.77 today and now we're announcing that SDK 52 supports it: expo.dev/changelog/20...

This is the most important update to Reanimated since worklets. Really proud of the team 🐎

Congrats to swm on this release. Makes great animations in RN so much more accessible to people coming from a web development background.

Reanimated 4 adds support for CSS Animations and CSS Transitions. This is a major milestone for React Native in terms of web alignment and developer experience. Congrats to everyone involved! 👏

Following the success of last year's talk on micro-interactions, we are thrilled to announce our first-ever premium workshop, on April 1st, hosted by @piaskowyk.bsky.social and @bbloniarz.bsky.social from @swmansion.com! Limited seats available! 👉 reactnativeconnection.io

Big announcement coming this week...

Reanimated 3.16.7 with support for React Native 0.77 is out! github.com/software-man...

A couple of days after and I've managed to implement a sparse scaffolding of an Automerge binding for React Native: github.com/automerge/re... 🎉

Just released 🏗️ npx setup-ci with long overdue bun and pnpm support! 🎉 Btw. check out our brand new docs 🧵

Answer the React Native survey now!

It's hard to overstate the importance of getting #reactnative #developers to fill in this survey. The answers are super important for the ecosystem: Enabling us to make informed (and hard) decisions on the future of all our fantastic tools and libraries. Thank you if you've answered already 💙

Radon IDE 1.0 is live! Turn VSCode and Cursor into a fully-fledged IDE for React Native and Expo: ✅ Build & run RN and Expo apps in integrated panel w/o extra configuration ✅ Jump to code from inspector, view hierarchy or log console ✅ Use debugger easily in your code www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Un...

It's finally here!

Rumours were true: we are now on Bluesky! But, mainly: React Native Connection returns in 2025! Join us in Paris on April 1-2, 2025 for the third edition of your Frenchiest React Native event! 👉 More info on reactnativeconnection.io

I've just managed to run New Architecture in Bluesky on RN 0.76!

Bringing MeshGradient from SwiftUI to React Native 🌈 Built with @expo.dev Modules and not yet announced feature in SDK 52 that allows to embed any SwiftUI view into RN app 📲 Implemented with the New Architecture in mind 🏛️ Demo built with @swmansion.com Reanimated and Gesture Handler 💜

Hello, 🦋! React Native Screens 4.0 is here 🎉 – Truly native bottom sheet on iOS and Android – Screen preloading for Native-Stack – Improved iOS screen animations – Tons of New Arch improvements – React Navigation 7 support See the full notes 👇 github.com/software-man...

Reanimated 🐎