Hello world! Here’s your #1 React Native Weekly Roundup
📢 Announcements
Evan Bacon just announced first-class CSS and Tailwind support in Expo - a huge styling battle won for React Native.
🧪 Experiments & Benchmarks
Jay Meistrich shared CPU benchmarks comparing LegendList against other list solutions / impressive numbers.
Software Mansion - React Native Screens is adding native Split View support.
🧠 RFCs & Deep Dives
🛠️ Tools & Releases
📣 Expo Changelog: GitHub build triggers are deprecated in favor of EAS Workflows.
📣 React Native Harness: Test native modules directly from JavaScript.
Radon AI can now see build & bundle logs
Improved Network Inspector
iPhone Air & iPhone 17 Pro support
RN 0.82 support
📦 React Native Audio API 0.9: Custom worklet node processors + Android background recording.
📦 Nitro 0.30: Nitrogen + memory management fixes.
📦 Uniwind Public Beta: Tailwind bindings for React Native, from the creator of Unistyles.
📦 React Native RAG 0.2: Leaner, more flexible API for building RAGs.
📦 React Native Sound 0.13: Dropping Old Architecture.
🎥 Watch & Learn
Marc Rousavy – How to build a Nitro Module
Beto – Adopting Liquid Glass in your Expo app
William Candillon – Liquid Glass with React Native Skia
Next Events
🏴 Nov 7 - React Native London
🇵🇹 Oct 23 - React Native Porto
October events bring incredible speakers to London and Porto + a unique opportunity to meet and network with the React Native community.
🇺🇸 USA: React Native Jobs
🇪🇺 Europe: React Native Jobs
🤯 Extra: React Conf Recap
Didn’t catch the full React Conf? No worries, you can dive into the official recordings yourself. Highly recommended, you won’t regret it!
🎥 Day 1: React Conf Day 1
🎥 Day 2: React Conf Day 2
Happy Friday — see you next week!
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