We break down what’s new, what’s next, and what’s actually worth your time in the evolving React Native ecosystem. Expect a dose of humour and plenty of memes.

Why do we keep trying to get you... Yes, YOU, reading this... STOP. Why are we trying to get YOU to go to conferences? Honestly, you're scrolling LinkedIn because somewhere in there you want to level up your "career". Whatever that means... And going to conferences is REALLY the best way to do that. Meeting people in real life... yes... real life. It opens doors you didn't know existed. You'll make friends, laugh, and come home inspired. Most of the people on that stage started out sitting in the audience. So... come to React Advanced in London on October 23. There's a talk on building game UI in Unreal Engine with React Native. And there's a React party with karaoke 🥴 Can't make London? October 26 is fully remote. Seriously, come out, shake our hands, and let's build this community together. #ReactAdvanced #ReactJS #ReactNative #GitNation #London #DevCommunity #TechConference
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Check out React Advanced London 👉 reactadvanced.com/
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A written joke gets 20 drafts. On camera it gets 1 take. Doctor Strange voice. One☝️ We are getting in front of the camera more this year. @lukebfarrell is getting in front of the camera more starting with day 1 recap at Agent Conf 👇 piped.video/HBMLUXrW6FQ?is=DpYv…
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Day 1 in a nutshell: 500 people, 16 speakers, and hectoliters of specialty coffee. Thank you to @grabbou, @thymikee, @kentcdodds, @nickwm, @jakubkuzimski, @davidmokos_, @dom_sipowicz, @piotrkarwatka, @anisha_malde, Kourtney Meiss, Zuzanna Skoczylas, Anjaneya Sastry Kappagantu, @artus9033, @LeSiOO, @davidbudac, and @TejasKumar_ for guiding us through the day. Awesome work.
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Two weeks left in @RevenueCat's @Shipaton . Stop redesigning onboarding. Cut features. Submit 1.0. Leave enough time for App Review to provide the remaining drama. Deadline: Sep 30, 11:45pm PT. $740K+ cash. 20+ categories. Shippy didn’t get that name by staying in TestFlight. rnrw.s.gy/shipatontonton
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A room full of engineers meet in Warsaw… And almost nobody is talking about writing code. That's @AgentConf. We are here with @callstackio, which is building more and more with agents. The whole event is about one question. What does your job look like when the agents do the building? Forget the 10x developer. 100x is the bar now. If you're here, come say hi 👋 If you're not, follow along. And feel the FOMO. agent.sh #fomo
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Introducing Legend Code Editor 15 MB app 40 MB RAM Syntax highlighting React Native macOS Open source If it's not the fastest app on your Mac, repost and reply for a full refund. github.com/LegendApp/legend-…
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This week there is a lot to talk about. In case you have missed the thread about Death, Life, and the sailed ships that never return in the environment... here we are to bring it to you. It is what it is, well if it wasn't then it wouldn't be; would it?
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React Native is DEAD, Expo Modules 2.0, and a $49 Flutter knockoff

Oy… Oy Sailor! We hit a… err… iceberg. And the ship seems to be sinking… But as every sea captain in every film says… The captain shall go down with his ship… So we'll see you at the bottom of

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Catch up on React Native, with a few memes along the way. @ReactNativeRwd delivers a weekly newsletter covering news and tools from the React Native ecosystem, with plenty of humor in the mix. We’re excited to welcome The React Native Rewind as a Community Partner of Agent Conf! Thanks for keeping developers informed and entertained.
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Your coding agent fixed the crash. The PR is 469 lines. It never opened the app. @expo gives agents cloud iOS simulators. Simlock by @callstackio coordinates access to local ones. goldie automates App Store screenshots. Pics or it didn’t happen. 👇
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EAS Cloud iPhones, Automated Screenshot Pipelines, and Nuking Every Simulator You Ever Loved

You’re reading The React Native Rewind #56. 469 Lines And A Video Confession Your agent just fixed a crash. The PR is 469 lines, the tests are green, and the description says the crash "is now fully

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A bug on Friday afternoon, just as you were heading to the pub. Submit another binary... or Patch it before the first Guinness? We tested @codemagicio Patch. Plus, you can win a year of unlimited M2 Mac builds worth $3,990. Sponsored by Codemagic.
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How to Save $3,774 a Month with Codemagic Patch

It was Friday. There was a bug. The app displayed: [object Object] Very informative. Patch saved us from submitting a new binary.. And got us to the pub on time to meet the most beautiful girl in the

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CodePush shut down, so now everyone ships an OTA service. This one's self-hosted: your server, your bundles, and much cheaper at scale. @codemagicio is giving away a free annual plan, almost $4,000 in CI/CD minutes. #ReactNative #CodePush #OTAUpdates 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤.
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Join the Codemagic Discord to enter for a free annual plan with almost $4,000 in CI/CD minutes; closes 14th September. discord.gg/2nAQHJhCfu
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Your AI agent can now publicly reply to one-star reviews under your name. Sleep well. Also: real token streaming in React Native, JSX on GNOME, and 30 days left to ship for $1M+ in Shipaton prizes. You are reading the React Native Rewind #55 ↓
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Expo AI Agents, A Million-Dollar Shipaton, and Your AI Apologizing to One-Star Reviews

You’re reading The React Native Rewind #55. Your Agent Can Publicly Apologize You asked for a bottom sheet. Your agent reached for @gorhom/bottom-sheet… dragged Reanimated in behind it… And wrote

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Every civilisation has taboos. Some cultures do not speak the names of the dead. Actors do not say Macbeth inside a theatre. React developers do not put hooks inside conditions. Nobody in either group remembers exactly why. They just know something terrible will happen. Octane (@octanejs) is a new framework with React's exact programming model (hooks, Suspense, context, actions) compiled ahead of time. The successor to Inferno. And because the compiler assigns hook slots by call site instead of call order, a hook inside an if statement is completely fine 🤯 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 ➡️ 𝗡𝗼 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀: put useEffect behind a condition or after an early return. The compiler automatically tracks what your effects, memos, and callbacks use. ➡️ 𝗡𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗢𝗠: templates compile to cloned DOM nodes with direct updates. Their benchmark suite puts React 19 with the official React Compiler at 2.2x slower on the geometric mean. ➡️ 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲: OctaneCompat renders compiled Octane islands inside a React 19 app, with real React context, SSR, and hydration. Keep your .tsx, convert to .tsrx as you go. ➡️ 𝟵𝟰 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: TanStack Query, React Router, Redux, Three.js, Radix, React Hook Form, and more, already ported. ➡️ 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗟𝘆𝗻𝘅: early-access support for rendering with native views on iOS and Android, with frame-critical code running on the main thread. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 Signal frameworks keep asking you to restructure your components. Octane's bet is the opposite: keep writing plain top-to-bottom functions with hooks, and let a compiler do the bookkeeping React makes you do by hand. #React #Octane #JavaScript #TypeScript #WebDev #Frontend #OpenSource #Compiler #Lynx
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