Here’s your #2 React Native Weekly digest with the latest updates, deep dives, and job opportunities.
New Releases
📦 Native UI: React Native & NextJS gave a birth to Solito - the missing piece for using React Native with Next.JS to build powerful cross-platform apps.
📦 Expo MCP: Expo introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP) - a new integration that lets AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code understand your Expo projects deeply by connecting to external data sources, enabling smarter, context-aware AI assistance for your codebase.
📦 mmkv: React Native MMKV 4.0.0 is a full rewrite to Nitro, improving compatibility with old architectures, switching to MMKVCore via CocoaPods/Gradle, adding useMMKVKeys(), AppGroup, and better error handling, plus multiple bug fixes.
📦 react-native-bottom-tabs: React Native Bottom Tabs 1.0.0 drops the old architecture, simplifies build configuration for full Expo Image compatibility, and includes numerous bug fixes.
📦 react-native-enriched: Software Mansion dropped 0.1.4 this week - It includes major iOS improvements (headings, attributes, newline handling, range detection, selection accuracy), Android fixes, and enhanced consistency across platforms.
📦 react-native-nitro-image: NitroImage adds new APIs for accessing raw RGB pixel data directly from JavaScript, allowing near zero-copy performance and low-level pixel manipulation.
📦 react-native-screens: 4.18.0 version refactors bottom tab icon APIs, improves iOS header and menu item handling, fixes several iOS and tab bar bugs, and updates examples and internal configurations.
Deep Dives
CallStack -Case Study: Migrating Questrade Edge Mobile to a Faster, More Scalable Architecture
Expo & Meta Quest: Getting Started With Expo & Meta Quest
Software Mansion: React Native (New) Architecture Performance
Code with Beto – Building a Real Camera App With Warp + CodeRabbit + Expo MCP
Recent Jobs
Next Events
🏴 Nov 7 - React Native London
Happy Friday — see you next week!
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