It’s that time again! Every year, we spend hours curating a roundup of the most exciting developments in React Native; from game-changing releases to standout talks and major library updates and much, much more.
After doing that yet again for 2024, one thing is clear: React Native’s momentum keeps growing, and so does our list!!
Think of this as a snapshot of the year’s biggest highlights in React Native. And, if this isn’t enough for you, we have even more insights and updates over at our full recap on X!
Keep scrolling to see what happened in React Native this year ...
React Native Test App 3.0, an important testing component in the React Native world, is released in January! RNTA provides test apps for all of the main platforms as a package.
The team at Margelo announced react-native-skottie, a library that runs Lottie animations using Skia’s GPU-accelerated engine.
Our friends at Expo announced SDK 50 with new and improved SQLite and Camera APIs, expo/fingerprint, router v3, and more!
The ultimate guide on migrating your web app from Next to Expo Router now exists thanks to Rofi! Check it out.
Our friends at Expo released Expo Router v3 and it's packed with goodies! Just check out Evan Bacon's post.
Our friends at Software Mansion announced the results from 2023's State of React Native survey. Take a look at the results!
Our hosts at React Native Radio put together a reaction episode! Listen now.
Microsofannounced bridgeless support for react-native-test-app and react-native-host Read the official post.
NativeWind v4 was announced along with gluestack-ui!
Oskar Kwaśniewski posted that React Native 0.73 is ready for Apple's new visionOS.
Shopify goes all in on React Native and announced it as their default way to build mobile apps going forward.
Our friends at Expensify and Software Mansion announced react-native-live-markdown.
Expo announced that Expo Camera was modernized in Expo SDK 50.
Zach shows off his new open source library, react-native-reusables!
Expo-share-extension makes it so developers can easily capture URLs in the native iOS share extension. Check it out!
Now you can add Live Activities to your iOS apps with React Native thanks to this post from Raúl Gómez.
Callstack has updated their popular Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization for 2024. Check it out!
Unification of React and React Native through react-strict-dom is now possible, thanks to Rofi.
A new React Native release crew was formed and they immediately started making things happen! Check it out.
Kudo geeked out about the brilliant new react-native-skia by William Candillon.
The useful npx new-arch tool looks at autolinked packages and finds out if they have been tested by the community + what package and RN version. See it in action.
Why do we use React Native? Our very own Jamon Holmgren answers it in this excellent post on X.
Kyle Shevlin showed us how to create curved bottom tabs bar in React Native (just like in the Venmo app).
React Native 0.74 is released with Yoga 3.0, bridgeless by default with the new architecture, and more.
Hear Mazen and Frank respond on React Native Radio
React Native’s home page gets a new look 🎨, new docs for getting started, and more! Jon Samp has more on the glow up.
At React Conf, it was announced that Expo is the first recommended framework to build React Native apps! 🎉
At React Conf, it was announced that Expo is the first recommended framework to build React Native apps! 🎉
Alfonso Curbelo, the author of that post, was also a speaker at our very own Chain React! Watch the talk.
As announced, RSC comes to every platform with Expo Router! Build an app with shared server/static rendering, data fetching, bundle splitting, and file-based routing on all platforms.
Dan Stepanov announced rn-primitives! It included universal, style-agnostic components for React Native, compatibility with any styling system, and more.
Dan Stepanov, the author of that post, was also a speaker at our very own Chain React! Watch the talk.
React-native-filament launched with, “a blazingly fast physically based 3D rendering engine built with C++ for React Native.”
Experimental Tree Shaking support for Expo has arrived! 🌲
A major milestone is reached with Ignite X! Catch the best features of our very own JP Poliachik’s video breakdown of the new release.
Our very own Robin Heinze gave an entire talk about Ignite at Chain React. Be sure to catch it on our YouTube channel.
Our very own Gant Laborde kicked off Chain React for us with an inspirational deep dive into why React Native is so powerful!
React Native WebGPU is announced at AppJS Conf
We all got to save some 💰 when Expo announced a change to EAS pricing.
The Metro Bundler announced that speeds were now 15x faster!
Included in React Native 0.76, React Native DevTools drops with a collection of updates that make it not only more correct, but more reliable as well.
We talk about RN 0.76 on React Native Radio episode 313, and debugging on episode 316!
Swift made its way into RN 0.77 as the default for iOS! We’re excited to see more on this in the coming year. 👀
React Native’s long-awaited New Architecture landed in October!
One by (creator of tamagui) is announced, a new React + React Native framework that simplifies sharing code with web and mobile, syncing data, and much more!
Thanks to Oskar Kwaśniewski, navigation became easier to manage across platforms with (React) Native Bottom Tabs!
boxShadow and CSS filters are welcome additions to the React Native family!
Saúl Sharma recreated popular apps in React Native that were wildly popular. Don't miss the rewrites of Apple Music and Netflix.
Shopify goes all-in on React Native, migrating their popular app over to it.
Google Play’s 2024 Best App award goes to… an Expo app!
Expo-vember kicked off this year with SDK 52! Expo Router v4, Experimental Tree shaking, React Server Functions Beta, and more…
We all rushed to Bluesky to secure our new handles, making it the top downloaded app in the App Store! Even better? It was built on Expo.
Catalin builds cool stuff for React Native all the time, and in November he released React Native Accordion as open source!
We’re introduced to Demos by Enzo Manuel Manganoa, collection of awesome React Native animations built with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and Skia.
Our very own Mazen Chami gave a fantastic talk on internationalization (i18n).
Our very own Mazen Chami gave a fantastic talk on internationalization (i18n).
There was so much happening in React Native 2024 that we may have missed a few.
Just reply to our thread on X to have us add it in!
And thank you to everyone who helped make 2024 an AMAZING YEAR for React Native!
There’s no perfect time to get started. Whether you have a formal proposal or a few napkin sketches, we’re always happy to chat about your project at any stage of the process.
Schedule a callThe fine people at Infinite Red put on the best conference I've ever been to (Chain React). They are great React Native community leaders and have a sick CLI called Ignite. I gotta be real with ya'll though. Nobody beats their swag game.
Long time reactotron user. Love ignite and using it a lot. The newsletter is always great. The new podcast rocks. The ppl on your team i read on Twitter are always kind and ready to help. Can't put it all in a tweet. You guys rock.
Infinite Red sure knows how to do open source! Such a nice developer experience. From zero to released in a couple of hours, all automated. Development done in TDD.
