Marc Rousavy asked what he should build in 2025 (and boy oh boy did he deliver!) View on 𝕏
Thor showed how to let AI control your phone using @WebRTC and @expo (not sure if this is such a good idea … has anyone checked on Thor lately?!) @thorwebdev
Gergely Orosz caused a stir by pointing out that Google doesn’t use Flutter for any of their flagship apps.
Mustafa Ali shared a post detailing how @Shopify went all-in on @reactnative. Spoiler: it went great!
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Mustafa also appeared on episode 319 of React Native Radio podcast! Listen to it now.
Our CTO @jamonholmgren lists common performance problems in React Native.
Saúl Sharma teased his upcoming open-sourced version of Apple News, which looks awesome!
Jay Meistrich released the first beta of his new Legend List 1.0, which aims to fix React Native list performance, and doesn’t use a single line of native code to do it.
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Jay also appeared on episode 325 of React Native Radio podcast! Listen to it now.
Software Mansion released the highly anticipated Reanimated 4, bringing CSS Animations and Transitions support.
React Native 0.77 was released with styling improvements and more.
Expo (via Evan Bacon) announced EAS Hosting, allowing quick deploys of Expo apps to web servers with eas deploy!
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And Infinite Red’s JP Poliachik breaks down how he used EAS Hosting for his web app in this video.
Michał Pierzchała showed a compelling demo of how adding React Native to an existing app should be.
Michał Sęk announced support for AnalyserNode in react-native-audio-api which has this super cool waveform visualization and much more.
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, announced their new React Native / Expo-powered app for building apps. It’s only 35 mb as well!
React Native 0.78 landed and Maciej Jastrzębski summarized the best of it here!
Charlie Cheever, CEO of Expo, observed that Expo apps making it to #1 in the App Store charts is now pretty routine!
Following a trend of AI app builders using Expo, Eric Simons announced that bolt.new now allows you to build Expo apps via prompts!
Daniel Dhawan also announced an AI app builder called Rork.app, which also uses Expo. This is becoming a theme!
Kadi Kraman made a super useful Expo cli cheat sheet.
The ever-prolific Oskar Kwaśniewski announced the new React Native Emoji Popup library for React Native!
Oskar also announced that he rewrote the Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization from scratch.
Fernando Rojo introduced Galeria 1 with support for the New Architecture.
Continuing the theme of useful libraries released in March, Mateusz Mędrek posted about React Native Legal – generate license pages and links for open source libraries you use.
React Native 0.79 landed with a bunch of performance improvements!
Jay Meistrich released Legend List 1.0 – lightning fast lists in React Native.
This was nowhere near the end of list improvements in 2025, however!
Theo posted a response to another youtuber’s video that claimed that React Native is not that popular. Our CTO Jamon Holmgren also provided some references and data that Theo uses in the video.
Szymon Rybczak announced react-native-ai which lets you run LLMs on-device with React Native and @aisdk.
The @spottedinprod account showcased their favorite React Native apps and goes into detail about why.
Simon Grimm geeks out about the gorgeous rn-better-dev-tools macOS app.
Jamon Holmgren responded to Apple’s swipe at React Native and other cross-platform frameworks and goes into detail why they got it wrong.
Storybook 9 was released with major React Native updates.
Günther tweets (in Japanese) about how Apple’s Liquid Glass showed the major advantage React Native has over Flutter.
React Native 0.80 dropped and Evan Bacon explains why prebuilt binaries are a huge deal. 0.80 also froze the Legacy Architecture!
Marc Rousavy continues his habit of releasing blazingly fast NitroModules-based libraries with react-native-nitro-image, which allows image manipulation without having to wait for file I/O.
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.
