Just found out I was the #9 top contributor on the @reactnative core repo last year according to GitHub Insights. Even more exciting, if you exclude Meta employees, I'm #1!🎉 Super thankful for the amazing support from the React Native community.

I hate how imprecise the term “native” has become. Is a UIKit app that mostly displays WebViews, such as Apple News, not a native app? What about an app that’s entirely rendered with UIKit or SwiftUI, but orchestrated by a bytecode file, as with React Native? How about a social network app that’s so server-driven it makes network round-trips before navigation? Do you trust that an app built with UIKit is doing concurrency better than the reasonable defaults of SwiftUI? Today, software is developed in natural language. When you use imprecise prompts, you get sloppy results. I ban my agents from using the term “native” to describe technical details. Your agent will inherit your principles, so why allow any room for ambiguity? Reject technical imprecision. Be curious about performance characteristics, and strive for data-backed answers.

We're so back! Expo Go on the App Store has now updated to SDK 57 🎉

Thinking about rewriting that entire native app in React Native? Maybe... don’t. 👀📱 At #ChainReact2026, @donadeldev from @expo showed how Expo Brownfield can bring React Native into an existing native app without starting over. To put it to the test, Expo took things a little further: 100+ open source apps, a purpose-built AI skill, and a mission to see just how far they could automate the integration. 🤖 The result? Plenty of surprises, product fixes, skill updates, and a much more robust way to bring Expo into existing apps. See how they did it and why incremental React Native adoption might beat a full rewrite below! 👇 piped.video/watch?v=Yk5KjVx6… #ChainReact #ReactNative #Expo #MobileDev #AI #AppDevelopment

I really enjoyed @donadeldev's talk on adding Expo brownfield across 100s of open source native apps. That's such a clever way of testing your product. This screen where he scaled the process with @expo's Tuft was so impressive. Great job!

Oh not much just @donadeldev casually adding @expo brownfield to a 100 apps in a day to battle test the expo brownfield integration @ChainReactConf 👏 See the code: github.com/expo/expo-brownfi… Get started with Expo brownfield: docs.expo.dev/versions/lates…

Such a great team! expo.dev/careers

If you're a react-native contributor, please read the following: Your personal fork of react-native might be locked and could prevent you from contributing further

Two years of wanting to do this rewrite, two months of doing it. The Objective-C++ layer was a ceiling on what was possible in Expo Modules. That ceiling is gone now, and this rewrite is the platform for what we're building next. More on top of this is coming 👀🚀

All my non-tech friends these days after 5 minutes using lovable

Expo SDK 56 is out 🙌 ◆ Expo UI is stable on iOS and Android ◆ iOS builds 16% faster, plus another 20% on EAS from precompiled community libs ◆ Android cold starts 40% faster ◆ Expo Router decoupled from React Navigation ◆ Inline native modules: write Swift and Kotlin right next to your TypeScript ◆ Hermes v1 by default ◆ Bytecode diffing on by default (~58% smaller OTA updates) ◆ iOS Widgets stable ◆ React Native 0.85 + React 19.2 It's been two months since SDK 55, and we packed in everything we could fit. Your iOS build times are going to thank you. Full changelog ↓

We just cut the SDK 56 beta 😅 ◆ 50%+ faster iOS builds (precompiled XCFrameworks) ◆ 40% faster cold starts on Android ◆ Expo UI is stable ◆ iOS widgets are stable ◆ expo-router rebuilt from scratch ◆ Inline native modules ◆ Brownfield multi-app support The obvious themes are speed and stability. But there are a lot of other interesting changes (like Expo Router decoupling itself form React Navigation). Get all the nuance and detail in the changelog below ↓

🙌 Expo is the best it's ever been, and it's about to get a lot better. We raised a Series B so we can go faster on the things that matter to you: faster builds, smoother native integrations, and the services to make end-to-end app development a delightful experience. There is a lot of work to do. This round led by @Georgian_io puts us in position to go do it!

New version coming soon! expo.dev/orbit

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📚 No rewrite required: How to bring Expo into mature native apps ✍️ @donadeldev @notbrent Skip the costly rewrite. Use Expo and React Native to modernize your app incrementally, adding new screens and features in days, not months. expo.dev/blog/how-to-bring-e…