Best of React Native — October 2025

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Life after TypeScript

    Motion's engineering team shares their decision to migrate from TypeScript to C# after 5 years and 2.5 million lines of code. The move addresses persistent developer experience issues including slow TypeScript compilation, language server crashes, ORM limitations with Prisma/Drizzle, and React Native performance bottlenecks. While acknowledging TypeScript's strengths in enabling full-stack development and rapid iteration, the team chose C# for its mature ecosystem, Entity Framework's robust ORM capabilities, similarity to TypeScript syntax, and better AI code generation performance. The article emphasizes this isn't about runtime performance but rather codebase scaling and developer productivity at enterprise scale.

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    Next.js 16 Beta and React Conf 2025: Major Updates and New Features

    Next.js 16 introduces Turbopack as the default bundler for 2-5x faster builds, stabilizes the React Compiler for automatic memoization, and adds explicit caching controls with 'use cache' directive. Breaking changes include asynchronous route parameters requiring await, middleware.ts transitioning to proxy.ts with Node.js-only runtime, and complete removal of AMP support. The release requires Node.js 20.9+, TypeScript 5.1+, and integrates React 19.2 features including View Transitions and useEffectEvent().

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    Avatar of asaprogrammerAs a Programmer·25w

    React Native Tutorial for Absolute Beginners - Build a Mobile App in 2 Hours

    A comprehensive beginner-friendly tutorial covering React Native and Expo fundamentals through building a full-stack to-do application. Covers essential components (View, Text, TouchableOpacity, FlatList), navigation patterns (tab and stack navigators), styling with StyleSheet, dark/light mode implementation with custom hooks and async storage, and real-time database integration with Convex. Demonstrates running apps on physical devices and simulators without requiring a Mac.

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