Did you know you can cache your app builds and reuse them—across your entire team?

No more rebuilding the same app over and over.

Just enable Remote Build Cache, and @expo.dev will skip native compilation if a matching build already exists in the cache.

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🚨 New Video alert!!! This video is about how to make game style 2D physics using matter.js and React Native Skia. I was excited to make this, hope you enjoy 🙂

The Video - youtu.be/fxxaOu6pLnU?...

Legend List 1.0 is LIVE!

The ⚡️ fastest React Native list library, 100% JS, with powerful new features. For new and old arch.

✨ maintainContentVisiblePosition
✨ Bidirectional infinite scrolling
✨ Chat UI without the inverting hack

I hope it helps make your apps better!

github.com/LegendApp/le...

🥳 Incredible to see another Expo app hit #1 in the app store. Nothing makes us happier here at Expo!

🗓️ We have a livestream scheduled with @reedharmeyer.bsky.social from @skylight.social for April 16th. So come ask all your questions about AT Protocol & hitting #1:
youtube.com/live/fyoRgvi...

C++ Connection? @jpudysz.bsky.social showing us the inner workings of Unistyles 3.0 in a super-interesting deep-dive on ShadowTrees

🚨Next Tuesday the creator of Unistyles, @jpudysz.bsky.social, joins the livestream to demonstrate the powers of Unistyles 3.0.

Come and ask your questions about styling react native apps with Unistyles!

youtube.com/live/K3wZg-P...

🆕 EAS Workflows (our React Native CI/CD) is now GA and available on our free tier. This is a massively important service for speeding up your team and establishing consistency.

Watch @jonsamp.dev's vid and then go give it a try for free.

youtu.be/OJ2u9tQCpr4

keyboard avoidance in RN is a fucking mess. would love to see some of the core team attention on improving this! github.com/react-native...

And while you’re celebrating the announcements (and the fact that the conference has somehow survived New Year’s Eve), don’t forget that our CfP closes in about 10 days. Hurry up!

👉 https://reactnativeconnection.io/cfp

React Navigation v7's new `navigation.preload()` function is amazing! It works seamlessly with the @expo.dev router and async routes, allowing you to lazily preload content (we do it `onPressIn`) to enhance perceived performance. Really impressive, love it!

There's this evergreen joke on software development that goes something like this:

"We're done with 90% of the project. Which means we only have the other 90% left to go."

It's funny because it's true. It's also why experienced engineers are in-demand: they are the "finishers."

AI tools: not now.

Introducing Unistyles 3.0! ✨

After months of development, I’m excited to present the brand-new version of Unistyles. We’ve shipped a ton of new features that will redefine how you build your React Native applications. 🧵

Rumours were true: we are now on Bluesky!

But, mainly: React Native Connection returns in 2025!
Join us in Paris on April 1-2, 2025 for the third edition of your Frenchiest React Native event!

👉 More info on reactnativeconnection.io

"Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend"

programmingisterrible.com/post/1392226...

A summary of the ~100 articles and deepdives from the last 12 months.

Including deepdives on the engineering culture of Bluesky, Stripe, Oxide; how Threads and Bluesky was built, how the OpenAI team scaled ChatGPT, how Anthropic builds new products, and many more interesting pieces:

New blog post: I learned React Native as a web developer, and I got everything wrong fernandorojo.co/mistakes

The #1 app in the US is an Expo app

trying react native without expo to make a reproducing project and let me tell you, it’s a world of pain

i did not realize how much expo was doing for us