Can confirm, Expo is indeed an amazing place to work

Some really great talks this year, don't miss out and grab your tickets now!

Expo Router v6 has a boatload of excellent new features, don't miss out and upgrade now! So happy to be part of this team shipping the future of React Native! 🫡

Looking forward to seeing apps using SDK 54, so many exciting new features 👌

Expo SDK 54's stable release is coming soon! 𝝠 Behind the scenes, changes to autolinking & dependencies make updates easier, and improve support across package managers for workspaces & isolated dependencies 📚 kitten.sh/blog/autolin... (Also please give SDK 54's beta a try ❤️)

Excited to share that I've joined Expo and today's my first day! Looking forward to 2025 😎

bluesky adding verification is only good if they verify me otherwise it's bad

What commercial solutions do #ReactNative peeps use for runtime root/jailbreak detection? Asking for a friend...

Had a productive morning getting *extremely* basic audio metering working for MP3 and HLS streams on #iOS. Next steps; roll my own fork of rntp.dev so I can use it in #ReactNative

Any #ReactNative vibe coders willing to give this a spin? github.com/twodoorsdev/...

Got inspired by @jayz.us playing around with React Native macOS and got NavigationSplitView working as an Expo module; next step is to see if I can hook it up to react-navigation

Happy new year 🥳 Can’t wait to see all the cool things you folks get up to in 2025!

Day 25: Thanks and Shoutouts 🎄 Merry Christmas to everyone reading! 🎄 This concludes the Advent of #ReactNative! Huge thanks to the community for keeping this ecosystem alive. I'd like to take a moment to thank the following folks:

Day 24: Styling in #ReactNative We’re all familiar with the built-in StyleSheet API, but its simplicity leaves large gaps for improvement, and thankfully over the years many such solutions have sprung up. Today I’ll go over some of the more popular ones.

Day 23: #ReactNative E2E Testing After coming back to React Native apps this year, I was curious as to what the gold standard is for E2E testing. It didn’t take long to see that everyone was using Detox, and by jove, it really does feel like Playwright for React Native apps: wix.github.io/Detox/

Day 22: #ReactNative Linux As the ugly stepchild of desktop platforms, Linux and React Native have had a more tempestuous relationship over the years. Back in 2016, @canonicalltd.bsky.social introduced their own fork of React Native, called React Native Ubuntu: canonical.com/blog/introdu....

Day 21: #ReactNative Windows react-native-windows brings Windows support to React Native. Before this year, I’d never used it at all so getting to grips with it earlier this year for a project was a bit of an upskilling process 😅

Day 20: #ReactNative macOS react-native-macos celebrates its 5th birthday next year, and its been a blast watching it improve and evolve.

Day 19: #ReactNative Databases I really enjoy using #SQLite, and one of my favorite developments in the React Native space has been the variety of tools that you can use with SQLite today.

You losers are using ChatGPT, Cursor, or even Windsurf to create your SwiftUI views? Pfft. I’m using Amazon’s Rufus support bot to create mine. #iOSDev #buildinpublic

Day 18: The CocoaPods saga As far back as I can remember, #ReactNative’s iOS support has always been built around CocoaPods (maybe this wasn’t true for the very first releases). In all those years, its worked fairly well (minus the occasional bit of drama with Ruby/Gems).

Day 17: OneStack A new #ReactNative contender arrives on the scene! While its announcement may have been a little spicy, I think a little competition is a good thing.

Day 16: Watchman Not a strictly #ReactNative post, but it typically only comes up when rebuilding native projects. I think the logs speak for themselves:

Day 15: React Native Skia Another top-shelf #ReactNative contribution from Shopify. Its high-performance 2D graphics rendering means you can get professional-grade, hardware-accelerated graphics performance in your RN apps.

Day 14: Reanimated The premier solution for animations on #ReactNative hit v3 this year and is still going strong thanks to @swmansion.com.

Got keyboard controls to pass through 👌 Happy Friday the 13th everyone! #ReactNative

Day 13: React Navigation Back in the early days of #ReactNative, there was a *lot* of competition in the navigation space (albeit mostly from Facebook with itself). There was NavigatorIOS, Navigator, then briefly NavigationExperimental. @expo.dev even tried their hand at it with ex-navigation too.

@mrousavy.com Reckon we can go platinum before the holidays? 😎

Day 12: EAS A mobile-first, managed CI/CD that has top-tier integrations with GitHub. A tightly-knit web app for building, deploying and OTA-updating #ReactNative apps. A CLI tool that keeps things ridiculously simple. That’s what comes to mind for us when we think about EAS at @twodoors.dev

Day 11: Expo Router Expo Router is incredible; big props to @bacon.bsky.social for his work on it. If you’re coming from @nextjs.org to #ReactNative, it almost looks the same (if you squint), and there’s enough in the documentation to be productive almost immediately.

Day 10: Expo Config Plugins In my opinion, possibly the single greatest thing in the #ReactNative ecosystem, even better than New Architecture. Config plugins fix SO much pain, and go hand-in-hand with the prebuild process, together enabling what's called Continuous Native Generation (or CNG)

Day 9: Expo and #ReactNative As someone who’s gone from actively avoiding @expo.dev to never shutting up about it, I’m trying hard not to make this sound like a love letter. Coming back to appdev after years of @nextjs.org, I felt right at home.

Day 8: Hermes, Yoga and Metro Back when #ReactNative was being built, Facebook needed foundational technologies that, at the time, did not exist (or were too young). Yoga, Metro, Yarn, Jest AND Docusaurus all came from Facebook that year, and it was a very cool year for open source.

Day 7: #React / #ReactNative Divergences When moving between React DOM and React Native, there are a few key differences that developers need to be aware of. Let’s go over some of them now:

Day 6: JavaScript interop in #ReactNative Interoperability with JavaScript libraries from npm can become a thorny issue, with some Web and Node.js APIs missing. Notably, this isn’t a React Native-specific issue, with groups like WinterCG defining baseline standards for JavaScript runtimes.

Day 5: Has unbundling been a success for React Native? Unbundling made sense (and still does), but I’m not convinced each module splitting out from the @react-native-community organization was the best idea. Each unbundled module has become its own fiefdom, typically tending towards neglect.

Day 4: Built-in vs. Community Modules Another stumbling block for users is what packages they should be using in the first place. The web is chock-full of recommendations, but its harder to find quantifiable pros/cons without having to do all the legwork yourself.

Day 3: Documentation Woes As we're about to go in to 2025, React Native's documentation is still rather terse. Having practical guides on performance considerations when using animations, <ScrollView /> and <FlatList />, <Text /> and <TextInput /> would save so many developers so much time.

Day 2: DevTools Support DevTools for React Native are solid now, but let's not forget the painful road we took to get here. Back in the earliest days, (before Hermes), RN used JavaScriptCore on iOS and whatever Android's internal JavaScript engine was at the time (vaguely remember it was NOT v8).

🎄 The Advent of React Native starts now! Day 1: React Native and I My first experience with React was with React Native, so it holds a special place in my heart. Before React Native, I used to build whitelabelled Ionic apps, so the performance uplift was immediately visible.

Hi all, I thought this year I’d try something new and post a series of skeets(?) as an “Advent of React Native”. For anyone who doesn’t know me (that’ll be most of you), I've been on the periphery of React Native since its launch back in 2015.

@tsapeta.dev Any chance you could take a look at github.com/expo/expo/pu... before the holidays? Would love to have a crack at some prebuild templates over Christmas 😀