To kick things off after the holiday break, Callstack engineers share a practical overview of where React and React Native are heading in 2026 covering ecosystem direction, priorities, and what to watch early this year.

New Packages

  • 📦 nitro 0.33.0 - a performance-focused release from mrousavy adding recyclable HybridViews for better memory efficiency and support for custom UIView subclasses, making Nitro modules more flexible and scalable. Includes new documentation and a curated awesome-nitro-modules list.

  • 📦 rnsec 1.0.1 adds 16 high-impact security rules, improved context-aware detection, config file support with rule exclusion, CI-optimized scans (changed files only), reduced false positives, and stronger protection against real-world attack vectors.

  • 📦 facetpack a modern React Native & Expo toolkit that dramatically speeds up Metro with Rust-powered OXC transforms, clearer error messages, smart Babel fallback for legacy packages, and a zero-config, drop-in setup—up to 36× faster than Babel with a built-in Doctor CLI for debugging and auto-fixes.

  • 📦 rock 0.12 - a compatibility release from Callstack Incubator adding full support for React Native 0.83 and 0.82, ensuring smooth upgrades with no breaking changes beyond framework alignment.

  • 📦 randon 1.15 - a powerful React Native & Expo IDE with deep device inspection, debugging, and AI-assisted tooling. This release adds Maestro test integration, improved stability (including react-compiler), smarter environment handling, and continued support for the latest React Native versions—making end-to-end mobile debugging faster and more integrated directly inside your editor.

  • 📦 galeria 2.0 - a major visual upgrade for the React Native image gallery from nandorojo, introducing fluid, interruptible transitions, page indicators, blur overlays, smooth corner-radius interpolation, preserved aspect ratios, and improved image loading—plus multiple animation and layout fixes. Requires iOS 16+ due to the new transition system.

  • 📦 sonner-native 0.23.0 - a small but useful update from gunnartorfis adding more styling flexibility with the new positionerStyle prop, improved style merging, and support for passing styles to promise-based toasts via the API, plus minor bug fixes.

  • 📦 react-native-tickle 0.1.1 an iOS-only React Native haptics library from Renegades Studio that brings AHAP-style transient and continuous haptics powered by Nitro Modules, with UI-thread (worklet) execution, real-time haptic players, full Core Haptics control, and zero-lag feedback for gestures, animations, and interactions.

Writings

Videos

Role Openings for React Native Developers at Relai

Relai is hiring a senior React Native developer to help build Europe’s leading Bitcoin savings app, used daily by individuals, high-net-worth investors, and businesses to securely buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin.

It’s a strong match for engineers looking for deep React Native work combined with real-world challenges around security, performance, and UI/UX in a production-scale mobile app.

  • Senior React Native Developer build and own core iOS and Android features, deliver high-performance, pixel-perfect UIs, collaborate closely with backend engineers, and help shape mobile engineering standards at Relai.

relai app

Other Open Roles

See ya next week! 👋


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