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when i’m named king of bc ferries my first act is bringing back the buffet and my second act is bringing back the video arcade BUT my third act is creating a giant tree canopy at every terminal so you’re not stuck roasting in a giant parking lot for an hour at the beginning or end of your trip

Expo SDK 56 is out & it's chunky 😅 ◆ Expo UI stable on iOS & Android ◆ iOS builds 16% faster ◆ Android cold starts 40% faster ◆ Inline native modules ◆ Hermes v1 default ◆ ~58% smaller OTA updates ◆ iOS Widgets stable ◆ RN 0.85 + React 19.2 Full changelog: try.expo.dev/sdk-56-bluesky

@joshwcomeau.com - i saw your comment on youtube on superbooth dreadbox artemis update video 👀 i've been thinking about getting this as my first analog polysynth!

You can turn 10,000 photos into anything once you get access to the GPU.

it’s always funny to me when people try to paint react as some kind of “big company” propaganda. it was like one person’s wild idea and then there was at most ~5 people maintaining it for years. people HATED it when fb open sourced it. the only reason it won is because the model was actually good

planners: our two universities will be at the end of a peninsula and at the top of a mountain people: won't people complain about how removed they are from the city? planners: almost immediately people: will rapid transit be created in response? planners: we'll talk about it for decades, but no

🎥 React Native Directory update: videos embedded in package READMEs now display correctly and can be played directly on the package page. 🌐 reactnative.directory

With two weeks left in the Local-First Conf CFP window, you might be wondering who judges the submissions. Pleased to announce this year’s committee: @adamwiggins.com, @geoffreylitt.com, @schickling.dev, and @bumble.blue This group has serious credentials. Details in the thread 👇

🥳 We raised some money. Expo is the best it's ever been, and this round of funding will help us get a lot better. With this money we can go faster on the things that matter: faster builds, smoother native integrations, and better e-2-e DX. Charlie wrote about what's next: expo.dev/blog/what-ex...

🔎 New on React Native Directory: quick search is now available right on the home page. Start discovering packages faster, with less clicking and less scrolling. 🌐 reactnative.directory

Seth Webster (@seth.blue), Executive Director of the React Foundation, is our first confirmed speaker at React Universe Summit. As Head of React at Meta, he drove the shifts that define how we build with React Native today. June 23, 2026 · New York City → reactuniverse.com

Released a massive update of my coffee timer app, Single Origin. I wanted to brew the roaster-created recipes available on the Fellow Aiden & xBloom, so I built an app that guides you through every pour, agitation, etc. Since it's built with Expo, it runs on iOS, WatchOS, Android, & Web. 👇

In Vancouver for #AtmosphereConf! So excited to chat with some fantastic developers (@pfrazee.com, @iame.li, @reedharmeyer.bsky.social) about building with @expo.dev on the AtProto. Saturday, 2:30PM, Great Hall South — be there!

🙋‍♂️ so ... for reasons: I would love to know people's frustrations with: - the current npmjs.com - admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally) 🙏

@expo.dev is so cool, we love hosting them, and they just announced how easy it is to upgrade everything!!

📊 New on React Native Directory: package version pages now show a Top Versions download chart. Quickly see which versions were installed most in the last week and how adoption of new releases is looking. 🌐 Start exploring: reactnative.directory

After these optimisations, our tests went from ~10 minutes down to ~3 minutes!

I just optimised the heck out of my company's Maestro E2E tests with EAS workflows. I used a mix of repacking & a few other undocumented optimisations to Android Emulators. Here's what I've done. #expo #reactnative

Our CFP is OPEN 🔥 Chain React 2026 needs speakers who can level up 500+ React Native devs in Portland this July! All you need is a title and a strong idea. It takes 10 minutes to submit. Deadline: March 18. We want to hear from you. 🎤 sessionize.com/chain-react-...

i want youtube and podcast apps to support audio processing plugins so i can filter out the unbearable but trendy smart person vocal crutch of repeating “you know” (often abbreviated to something like “yeow”). i really would like to watch dario interviews but i cannot. note: i am mildly misophonic

wow congrats @reedharmeyer.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/t...

Expo SDK 55 beta is out now 🧪 (RN 0.83.1 + React 19.2) ♢ Legacy Architecture removed ♢ New default template (Native Tabs + /src/app) ♢ Hermes v1 opt-in ♢ Hermes bytecode diffing for smaller OTA updates ♢ More native Router features + better “Expo in native apps” support expo.dev/changelog/sd...

llms now seem to be good enough to build side projects that i never would have otherwise bothered to build. this is cool

ice cream is underrated

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

4 million users worldwide 4.9 stars with 111,000 ratings on iOS 4.8 stars with 63,000 ratings on Android This is the kind of app you want to learn from. Check out the new guest post from the Lingvano team about their award winning app: expo.dev/blog/scaling...

v1.110 is live! We’ve expanded post-reporting options from 5 → 39. This gives you more precise ways to flag issues and strengthens the signals our safety systems rely on. Clearer reports mean better moderation and higher-quality conversations across Bluesky. Learn more: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

🆕 This PR from @nishan.dev adds CSS grid support to react native 🙌 It's not possible to overstate how massive this is for all of us. Future generations will celebrate Nishan Bende Day 🐐 github.com/facebook/yog...

is it just me or did americans recently decide, without consulting the rest of us, to suddenly start speaking with a hard g in “singer”? like sing-ger

message me here or come talk with me at @reactnativelondon.co.uk next week if this job posting looks like a good fit for you! expo is an amazing place to work! expo.dev/careers/web-...

as someone who very much enjoys @chasebliss.bsky.social pedals, i am so stoked that this app exists and that it was built using tools that i work on expo.dev/blog/buildin...

𝝠 Expo passed 2 Million weekly npm downloads over the weekend. It wasn't a milestone we were tracking or aiming for. But it feels great to get there. It's a credit to the hardworking team at Expo and to the community of devs that contribute and support Expo. Thank you!

💂‍♀️ If you're anywhere near London next month then make your way to RNL Conf. This is a talent-rich event with wonderful speakers, panels, and workshops. We've got a massive cohort of Expo devs headed to London and we'd love to see you there. www.reactnativelondon.co.uk

made my first leaflet :) a little guide to our new @atproto/oauth-client-expo library

app devs: we have some new AT OAuth resources and examples for you! linked off this intro page we have new example projects showing how to do client auth using reference SDKs for TypeScript and Go. and the buried lede: an Expo library for doing AT OAuth in React Native mobile apps

New Automerge website at automerge.org. Kudos to @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com for their work building it. The level of craft and detail in the landing page is very satisfying.

🎉 Introducing React Native Harness - a lightweight framework for testing native modules directly on device or emulator. Write tests in a Jest-like syntax, run them in a real React Native runtime, and verify native behavior without mocks.

very interesting talk by @lunaleaps.bsky.social from the second day of react conf about RN threading and virtualizating lists, highly recommend watching

Love how much of the latest @reactnative.dev release is removal and deprecations! github.com/facebook/rea... While it might cause downstream friction, it's such a healthy sign for a project to not "just add on" but tackle its technical debt head first! I hope this doesn't stop if we ever get to 1.0!

We just launched a new React Native showcase for Meta Quest VR 🚀 Our demo on Horizon OS features camera, audio, and fluid navigation powered by popular libraries. It proves you can use existing mobile skills to build high-performance VR experiences. Read the full story by @jwr.ski on our blog ⬇️

react team are absolutely cooking reactnative.dev/docs/element...

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🆕 AI apps don’t need the cloud. With react-native-executorch, you can: ♢ Keep data private ♢ Run AI offline ♢ Skip API fees ♢ Get instant responses On-device AI is here. Read about it in the blog post from @swmansion.com → expo.dev/blog/how-to-...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters