Samuel Beaulieu

Mobile Developer @AppAndFlow, specializing in React Native & Expo

[App&Flow @appandflow]

Thank you to the @AppStoreGames team for featuring Dartwords, the game we built with our partners @thegameband.

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

Really excited to see what’s next for Exact! This already makes me want to keep building with it.

If you missed the announcement post, here it is: https://t.co/Vvppf7pUkm

[Charlie Cheever @ccheever]

I want to share a preview of something I've been working on called Exact. It's a new Agent Native app framework written in Rust. It's extremely fast and tries to let you build exactly the experience you want with no compromises.

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

I wanted to try Exact from @ccheever @expo last night. I asked my agent to port a few screens from my Moovii app, and I’m really happy with the results already.

2 prompts later: iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Mac, and web. All from one codebase 🤯

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

The coolest part is the native UI. Tabs, navigation, menus, and controls that belong on each Apple device, plus real DOM on the web.

Seeing the same screens adapt properly across all of them is pretty wild.

[wukko @uwukko]

please stop

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

@chriswelch @viticci "Fully optimized" or "We asked Gemini to make it look good enough on full screen"?

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

Dartwords is finally out on iOS! I’m so excited for you all to play 🎯 let us know what you think!

[The Game Band @thegameband]

Dartwords is out now on iPhone and iPad!

🎯 Download here 🎯 https://t.co/HQY6pcoomN

There’s SO much new stuff in the app. Highlights below 👇

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

@inyourshitpal @EddyGraphic1 @BetaProfiles That's what PWAs are for.

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

@justinwiese @Plasma @expo @ReactNativeSkia Any time! :) I do love the overall design!

[Paul Hudson @twostraws]

iOS developers: Please for the love of god stop making your own custom tab views, not least they because they all freaking suck on iPhone Duo. Shopify, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, YouTube, and more are all trying, and none of them are succeeding 🤷‍♂️

[Thomas Ricouard @Dimillian]

Custom share sheet should be illegal. Biggest cancer on iOS.

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

@janicduplessis #2! ✨

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

It's time to add support for iPhone Duo in your @expo app!

[App&Flow @appandflow]

Safe area insets aren’t always enough on iPhone Duo.

Meet react-native-reserved-regions, a sister library to react-native-safe-area-context.

Apple’s new reserved regions API, in React Native. Let your UI make room for folds, camera cutouts, and system controls.

[Janic @janicduplessis]

Are technical blog posts still interesting in the age of LLMs?

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

@matthewskiles With all the bad AI icons I've been seeing lately, this is refreshing! Amazing & high quality work, I love it!

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

@margelo_com The best camera library just got even better! I need to find a new project to try this out!

[App&Flow @appandflow]

Engineers today run several agents in parallel. On a React Native app, those agents fight over ports, simulators, and rebuilds.

Today we're open-sourcing Stim, our agent-first CLI that gives each agent its own isolated RN/@expo environment.

[Samuel Beaulieu @beaulieusam]

Working in parallel with agents is about to get way easier! 👀

[Janic @janicduplessis]

Agents are good at writing React Native code, but suck at building and running the app.

The tooling is built for humans, not agents working in parallel.

Been working on a not-so-secret project to make that easier and faster.