State of React Native 2025 survey!
This Week In React 246 - Back from holiday with @piaskowyk.bsky.social & @kacperkapusciak.bsky.social 🏝️
🍿 Read / subscribe online: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/246
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- Nextjs
- React Router
- TanStack
- StyleX
- MUI
- Storybook
📱
- RN 0.81
- FlashList 2
- Expo 54 beta
- Nitro
- Audio
- StrictDOM
Anyone up for a quick Reanimated 4 live-coding with @kacperkapusciak.bsky.social?
Join us tomorrow at 5 PM CEST!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Vm...
React Native Reanimated 4 is now stable and ready for production 🐎
Featuring CSS Animations & Transitions, multithreading with React Native Worklets and more.
youtu.be/Wr2fOM_xD2I
Announcing React Native Screens Overhaul ✨
↳ Native Bottom Tabs on iOS and Android
↳ iOS 26
↳ Support for the New & Legacy Architecture
↳ More native primitives coming in the future
Currently in Alpha 🚀
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 242 - Thanks to @piaskowyk.bsky.social @kacperkapusciak.bsky.social
🍿 Read/subscribe here:
thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/242
⚛️ React
- Vite RSC
- Next.js
- NuxtLabs
- shadcn
- TanStack
- Valtio
- XState
- RHF
📱 RN
- Unistyles
- RAG
- Shadow Insets
- Ignite
- Metro
- 0.81 RC
CSS Animations & Transitions syntax from React Native Reanimated 4
CSS Animations & Transitions makes it incredibly easy to animate things in React Native
Even though Reanimated 4 is still in beta, being familiar with new syntax may come in handy really soon™
Reeeally easy outline interaction using CSS Transitions & Animations ✨
Made with React Native Reanimated 4
@swmansion.com
Source code 👇
cooked up a new SegementedControl component. Reanimated layout transitions make this absurdly easy
Radon IDE 1.8 is out!
🔄 Run multiple devices in the background – one of your most requested features
🧠 Added support for Module Context Protocol in Radon AI
⚛️ Added support for React Native 0.80
🐞 Tons of bug fixes for a smoother, more stable DX
Struggling with deeply nested views? 🤯
With Radon IDE, you can point-and-click any element in the device preview to open your file at the exact line where this element is defined.
Need to see the bigger picture? Right-click on the element to reveal the full hierarchy of its parent components. 🧩
me being a master procrastinator could never
also living 15 mins away from the airport doesn’t help 😀
It was fun to write this one with @tboba.pl 🙌
Thanks Seb for everything 🥰
Radon IDE is a VSCode (and Cursor!) extension that turns your editor into a complete IDE for React Native and Expo development.
You can play around with the chat functionality if you have an active Radon IDE license 👇
ide.swmansion.com
This is Radon AI ✨
A GitHub Copilot Chat but with the latest knowledge of the React Native ecosystem.
Let me know what you think!
it’s getting really good
nearly year and a half of development went into it - still a lot to improve
the extension part of the code is actually public so you can check for yourself
github.com/software-man...
love it! 😸
This Week In React 229
Read and subscribe here:
thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/229
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- React Conf
- React Router
- Next.js Adapters
- Redwood
- Apollo
- Fastify
- Vite
- Waku
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- RN 0.79
- Deep Imports
- Expo Fingerprinting
- Builder Bob
Cut CI time from 20 minutes to 6 in React Native 🔥
@coolsoftware.dev shows how with Ignite, @expo.dev EAS Workflows, and Maestro:
1️⃣ Fingerprint your native build
2️⃣ Deploy JS-only changes with EAS Update
3️⃣ Skip native builds in CI
Read the post 👇
shift.infinite.red/cut-ci-from-...
"It's all about types!" - using Static Hermes for boosting JavaScript performance
@piaskowyk.bsky.social
@reactnativeconnect.bsky.social
React Native ExecuTorch v0.3.0 enables fast & private OCR in your app – fully on-device, with no server calls. 🔎📄
Currently, it supports English texts, but more languages are coming soon! 🌍
Learn how to add it to your app! 🎥 ⬇️
🆕 What are the 4 Radon IDE features that devs are using to build faster with Expo?
Check out the blog post from @kacperkapusciak.bsky.social to see what the latest version of Radon is doing to help you with debugging, routing, inspecting code, and launching DevTools.
expo.dev/blog/4-must-...
The 2024 survey answers in ~90% align with my gut feeling about the React Native ecosystem
The solutions that are my personal favorites are gaining popularity 📈
And the ones I personally wouldn't pick for my project are dropping 📉
Interesting!
🔥THE RESULTS ARE IN🔥
results.stateofreactnative.com
Also, organizers cover the cost of travel and accommodation
Talk proposals are only accepted for 2 more weeks till February 23rd
So what are you waiting for?
Here’s the link ⬇️
forms.gle/KQQyUyT9YNz8...
A photo of App.js 2024 attendees focused on a very interesting talk
All you have to do is to fill out a single form with your talk idea
Both first-timers and experienced speakers are welcome
Simply the best ideas win!
A photo from Evan Bacon's talk at App.js 2024 about React Server Components
How to become a speaker at App.js 2025?
A React Native & @expo.dev conference in beautiful Kraków, Poland @swmansion.com
Well, it’s easy, actually 👇
🖤❤️ RNR 320 ❤️🖤
This week, we dive into silky-smooth animations with
@mironcatalin.bsky.social! 🚀
From Reanimated and layout animations to interpolation and motion accessibility—we're covering it all.
Listen now! 🎧
reactnativeradio.com/episodes/rnr...