Best of React Native — 2025

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Vladislav Siumbeli·20w
I built TinyDebt — a minimal debt-tracking app (no backend, instant syncing)
A developer shares the technical decisions behind building TinyDebt, a minimal debt-tracking mobile app. The app uses React Native with Expo, stores data locally using AsyncStorage with optional Supabase backups, and requires no user accounts or backend. The local-first architecture enables instant actions, offline functionality, and fast performance. The UI prioritizes simplicity with neutral colors and minimal screens, while the data model uses serializable TypeScript types for easy storage and migrations.
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React Native·27w
A New Era · React Native
React Native 0.82 marks a major milestone by exclusively running on the New Architecture, removing support for the Legacy Architecture. The release introduces experimental Hermes V1 with performance improvements (up to 9% faster bundle loading), upgrades to React 19.1.1 with full owner stacks support, and implements DOM Node APIs for web-like tree traversal. Additional features include Web Performance APIs in canary, an optimized debug build type for Android that runs at 60 FPS versus 20 FPS in standard debug mode, and improved error reporting for uncaught promise rejections.
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As a Programmer·1y
MERN Stack React Native Project: Build a Bookstore App With React Native and Node.js
Learn how to build a full-stack mobile application using the MERN stack with React Native and Node.js. This tutorial guides you through creating a book recommendation app featuring user authentication, infinite scrolling, and CRUD operations with MongoDB. The app integrates with Cloudinary for image uploads and showcases different UI themes. The project is beginner-friendly and runs on iOS, Android, and web platforms.
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As a Programmer·1y
The Ultimate React Native Course in 2025
This post outlines a comprehensive React Native tutorial to build a real-time social media application called Spotlight. The app features several screens such as authentication, home, bookmarks, post creation, notifications, profile, and others' profiles. It includes Google authentication, real-time updates, and various UI components. The guide is designed for those with basic React knowledge and covers setup with Expo, use of fundamental React Native components, and deployment on both iOS and Android. It also addresses performance optimization and the integration of a backend and authentication using Clerk and Convex.
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SD Times·27w
Meta donates React and React Native to the Linux Foundation
Meta is transferring React and React Native to the Linux Foundation, which will establish the React Foundation to govern these widely-used JavaScript UI libraries. The foundation includes founding members Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel, with Seth Webster as executive director. This move aims to provide neutral governance, manage infrastructure, organize events, and foster community collaboration for projects used by over 20 million developers across multiple platforms.
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As a Programmer·47w
Build a Full Stack Mobile Application with React Native & Expo - Beginner Friendly
This tutorial guides beginners through building a full stack mobile application using React Native and Expo. It covers creating an expense tracker app with essential features including sign-up, email verification, and transaction management. The tutorial includes backend development with Express and PostgreSQL, deployment, and implementing authentication and rate limiting with Clerk and Redis. All tools and components used are free, and the tutorial is structured for those new to React Native.
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Jack Herrington·1y
Fix Your Slow React App With React-Scan
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As a Programmer·37w
React Native Bootcamp in 30 HOURS for FREE 🎉
A comprehensive 30-hour React Native bootcamp that teaches mobile development through building six practical applications including a Twitter clone, recipe app, expense tracker, bookstore app, Instagram clone, and a full-stack todo application. The course covers React Native fundamentals, navigation, authentication, database integration, and deployment, designed for complete beginners with no prior mobile development experience.
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As a Programmer·43w
Build a Full Stack Mobile App with React Native & Expo - React Native Tutorial
A comprehensive tutorial covering the development of a full-stack recipe search mobile app using React Native and Expo for the frontend, with a Node.js/Express backend connected to a PostgreSQL database. The tutorial walks through building authentication with Clerk, implementing CRUD operations with Drizzle ORM, deploying the API to Render, and setting up cron jobs to prevent server inactivity. The mobile app features user authentication, recipe search, favorites functionality, and multiple color themes, demonstrating cross-platform development principles and best practices for production deployment.
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Vladislav Siumbeli·16w
Migrating my Expo apps from Supabase to Firebase — what I learned
A developer shares their experience migrating two Expo apps (TinyRecipe and TinyDebt) from Supabase to Firebase. The migration used @react-native-firebase and worked smoothly with Expo Dev Clients without requiring bare workflow. Key takeaways include Firebase's strengths in real-time updates and offline capabilities, Firestore's responsive queries, and straightforward authentication and analytics setup. The author notes that Supabase excels for SQL-based setups while Firebase shines for real-time features, and emphasizes how Expo's improved native module support made the process easier than expected.
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Mobile developers·43w
🚀 Crossbuild UI – Expo + React Native UI Kit with Instant CLI Setup!
Crossbuild UI is a new UI toolkit for Expo and React Native that provides 20+ styled components with dark/light mode support, Figma-inspired designs, and a CLI tool for rapid app scaffolding. The toolkit includes open-source templates and themes, built-in theming system, and Expo-optimized project structure. The project recently relaunched with improved documentation and starter kits, and is actively seeking developers, designers, and community moderators.
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Overreacted·22w
Hire Me in Japan — overreacted
Dan Abramov, known for his work on React at Meta and the Bluesky app, is seeking a software engineering position in Japan with visa sponsorship. He recaps his 15+ years of professional experience, including creating React Hooks documentation, Fast Refresh, Create React App, and Redux. His recent work involved React Native development at Bluesky, focusing on performance optimization and UI quality. He's looking for roles in UI engineering and web development, preferably in Kyoto, with English as the primary work language while he learns Japanese.
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Collections·27w
React and React Native Transition to the React Foundation
React and React Native are transitioning from Meta to the newly established React Foundation under the Linux Foundation. The foundation, backed by founding members including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Vercel, will provide neutral governance for both frameworks used by nearly 55 million websites. Meta is contributing over $3 million in funding and engineering support for five years. The foundation will manage infrastructure, trademarks, community events, and establish a new technical governance structure to ensure transparent decision-making and community-driven development.
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Community Picks·1y
NativeWind
NativeWind allows developers to use Tailwind CSS for styling React Native components, ensuring a consistent and high-performance experience across platforms. It compiles Tailwind CSS styles during the build step and applies them efficiently at runtime. Key features include universal styling engines, developer UX enhancements, CSS variables, robust animations, transitions, support for Tailwind groups and parent state, responsive styles with media and container queries, pseudo classes, rem unit support, dot notation, and custom CSS compilation.
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JavaScript Mastery·41w
Build a Full Stack Food Delivery App in React Native with Scalable Database Architecture
A comprehensive tutorial for building a full-stack food delivery app using React Native, Expo, and modern development tools. Covers setting up the development environment with NativeWind for styling, implementing navigation with Expo Router, creating reusable components, and integrating backend services with Appwrite for authentication and database management. The tutorial emphasizes clean architecture, proper state management with Zustand, and production-ready practices including error monitoring with Sentry.
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Community Picks·1y
Welcome to Moti
Moti is a universal animation package for React Native, created by Fernando Rojo. It enables smooth 60 FPS animations on native threads and supports various animation features like mount/unmount, variants, keyframes, and sequences. Moti works across multiple platforms, including web and Expo, and is powered by Reanimated 3. It aims to simplify animation by allowing style transitions similar to CSS, without the need for hooks.
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Fireship·26w
React wants to win you back…
React 19.2 introduces useEffectEvent hook to simplify effect dependencies and an Activity component for smarter component visibility management. The React compiler reached 1.0, automating memoization optimizations that developers previously handled manually with useMemo and useCallback. React and React Native are moving to an independent foundation after 15 years under Meta. Meanwhile, the Remix team announced Remix 3, a new framework built on web fundamentals without React's legacy baggage.
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JavaScript Mastery·1y
React Native Course for Beginners in 2025 | Build a Full Stack React Native App
React Native is a valuable skill for mobile development, with 75% of web development knowledge carrying over. The crash course covers React Native fundamentals, including the latest features, Expo framework, core building blocks, and developing a modern, fully functional movie app. React Native enables building apps efficiently for both iOS and Android with a single code base, offering faster development and reduced costs. The course emphasizes clean, maintainable code, and provides a free roadmap for learning React Native, leading to confident app deployment.
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Web Tools Weekly·45w
CSS Tools, Git/CLI Tools, Mobile, React Native
A curated collection of web development tools covering CSS utilities like atomic CSS solutions and browser compatibility checkers, Git/CLI tools including AI-powered terminal assistants and changelog generators, and React Native libraries for performance profiling and UI components. Features tools for developers ranging from beginner-friendly CSS generators to advanced mobile development libraries.
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Simon Grimm·20w
I Built a Mobile Farming Game in 6 Days (with AI + Expo)
A developer shares their experience building a mobile farming game in six days using React Native, Expo, and AI tools. The workflow involved using ChatGPT for planning, Cursor for coding, and various AI models for different tasks. Key learnings include leveraging Expo Application Services (EAS) for automated builds and deployments, the challenges of game design versus development, and the limitations of AI when debugging complex state management issues. The developer emphasizes that while AI dramatically accelerated development, understanding the underlying technology remains essential for solving critical bugs.
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As a Programmer·41w
Build a Twitter Clone with React Native - Full React Native Tutorial
A comprehensive 7-hour tutorial for building a fully functional Twitter/X clone using React Native and Expo for the frontend, with a complete Node.js/Express backend API connected to MongoDB. The tutorial covers authentication with Clerk (Google/Apple sign-in), image uploads with Cloudinary, security features with ArcJet, and includes features like posting, commenting, liking, notifications, messaging, and user profiles. The course also teaches proper Git workflow with branches and pull requests, simulating real-world development practices.
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React Native·18w
React 19.2, New DevTools features, no breaking changes · React Native
React Native 0.83 is released with React 19.2, introducing the Activity component and useEffectEvent hook. Major DevTools improvements include new Network and Performance panels, plus a standalone desktop app that no longer requires Chrome or Edge. The release adds stable Web Performance APIs and experimental Intersection Observer support. This is the first React Native release with no breaking changes, making upgrades from 0.82 seamless. Additional features include Hermes V1 performance improvements, iOS legacy architecture removal option, and precompiled binary debugging capabilities.
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Awesome·51w
The easiest way to build apps... Seriously.
Mobile app development has evolved, enabling developers to build native apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript through Expo. Expo simplifies the setup and provides a managed runtime, native APIs, a zero-config CLI, and cloud-built tools. It supports over-the-air updates and seamless integration of authentication services like Clerk. This makes the cross-platform development process much more efficient and less painful.
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Jack Herrington·1y
FREE Web+API Hosting on Expo
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Collections·28w
Introducing React 19.2: Key Features and Enhancements
React 19.2 introduces several performance and developer experience improvements including the Activity component for state preservation, useEffectEvent hook for cleaner event handling, enhanced Chrome DevTools performance tracking, Partial Pre-rendering for optimized load times, and improved server-side rendering with batched Suspense boundaries. Additional updates include cacheSignal for SSR cleanup, React Native enhancements with Amazon Vega OS support, Next.js 16 defaulting to Turbopack, and NativeWind 5.0 adding Tailwind 4 support.
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