Mark Lawlor

NativeWind v5 will remove this, as it's no longer required with TailwindCSS V4 🎉🎉

React Native 0.76 - New Architecture by default, React Native DevTools, and more · React Native Today we are excited to release React Native 0.76!

You should switch to using boxShadow in 0.76 The shadow* styles can be inconsistent and have many edge cases where they will not work.

boxShadow is more consistent across platforms and you can use the existing box shadow generators online

reactnative.dev/blog/2024/10...

This has been a highly requested feature, but it might take a little bit to land as its part of a much larger body of work 👀

When a unit test takes up your weekend 😅

This work allows CSS variables to set animation properties dynamically at runtime. This gives you greater control of the animations and allows plugins like TailwindCSS Animated to work with NativeWind

www.tailwindcss-animated.com/configurator...

Having fun with expo-router headless tabs again! Made the camera tab pull double duty - first tap opens camera screen, next taps take pics. Tab bar completely styled with NativeWind (even those smooth animations!) @expo.dev

What has happened to NPM download stats? Every package is reporting a dramatic loss of downloads

This was changed in v4 to follow CSS specificity - meaning the same order as the web

Previously it used Right-to-Left (same as react native).

I would highly recommend using prettier to order your classNames, as this fixes edge cases with TailwindCSS and is recommended by Tailwind