Stop guessing why your React Native app slows down in production. ⁉️
Web developers had profiling builds for React Components, and it's time we had them too.
Say hello to @callstack/inspector 🔍
supervision just hit 40,000 GitHub stars!
it now powers over 6.5k open-source computer vision projects, including all my demos like basketball AI
link: https://t.co/xXMRaS4ejS
We just released react-native-runtimes! 🥳
👉 Render React components on separate JS Runtimes
👉 Share state (Zustand) across Runtimes, synced in C++
👉 Dual-Thread-approach for rendering/business logic
We plugged this into MetaMask which made the app start substantially faster:
react-native-streamdown v0.2.0 is out! 🚀
Powered by the new react-native-enriched-markdown v0.6.0, markdown now streams more smoothly with the full GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) support, including seamless real-time rendering for tables and rich formatting.
If you’re building LLM or AI-chat experiences in React Native, this update is for you. Check it out! 👇
Absolutely incredible:
Over the last 6 years, the S&P 500 has risen +130% while US Consumer Sentiment has collapsed by -55%, to its lowest since data began in 1952.
We are witnessing the formation of the biggest wealth divide in modern history.
working on a faster boot, interactions, and test replay for agent-device. so far:
→ 3.4x faster than baseline
→ 1.5x faster than Maestro (yes, we're adding compatibility layer)
shipping this in v0.15 once tested better
I'm playing today with native text wrapper that animates any Text component.
<AnimateText effect="...">
<Text> test </Text>
</AnimateText>
Microsoft just cleaned house in Microsoft Israel. They fired the GM, as well as several other managers.
Why? The initial Guardian article explains it: Microsoft believed MS Israel employees lied to Microsoft out of loyalty to their military. Which tracks.
Big win for cross-platform video 🚀
gpu-video v0.4.0 is out, bringing H.265 hardware encoding to the wgpu ecosystem:
✅ Better quality, lower data usage
✅ Low CPU overhead
✅ Roadmap to iOS/macOS
Next: AV1 support! 📹
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 ↓