Best of React Native — February 2025

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   Jack Herrington·1y

   Fix Your Slow React App With React-Scan

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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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   React Native·1y

   Drop the tools/NPM you use in React Native EXPO👇👇

   The author is transitioning from web to app development using React Native Expo and is seeking recommendations for essential tools and NPM packages used in this development framework.

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   ITNEXT·1y

   A New CSS Era, A Goodbye to console.log(), and Expo Brings Hosting to the Masses

   React Native 0.77 introduces significant styling improvements, including support for `display: contents`, new box-sizing options, mixBlendMode, and outline properties. Android 15 enhancements improve memory efficiency, while Expo's EAS Hosting simplifies full-stack deployments. The removal of console.log() forwarding in Metro enhances developer logging with Chrome DevTools. Reanimated 4 brings CSS-like animations to React Native, and Static Hermes promises faster execution by pre-compiling JavaScript into native code.

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   YouTube·1y

   The Complete App Development Tutorial for Beginners in React Native Expo using Cursor AI Coding

   This beginner-friendly tutorial guides you in developing a full-stack mobile application for both Android and iPhone using React Native and Expo. It covers installing tools like Node.js and AI code editors, setting up the application, creating backend services with Superbase, and integrating AI functionalities using Deep Seek. The guide includes testing the application on both platforms and detailed steps for environment setup to ensure anyone can follow along, even without any prior coding experience.

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