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React Native
1/28/2026

Bringing CSS Clipping to React Native

CSS Clip-path makes it easy to create non-rectangular UI elements on the web, but React Native does not support it out of the box. This article walks through what adding Clip-Path support would involve, following the flow from JavaScript styles through React Native’s C++ core and New Architecture to native rendering on iOS and Android. It looks at how a new style property would be parsed, represented in Fabric, and applied at the platform level, using Core Animation masks on iOS and canvas clipping on Android, to show why supporting a single CSS feature requires coordinated changes across the entire rendering pipeline.

Kamil Paradowski

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Brownfield
1/20/2026

Introducing Brownie: Type-Safe Shared State for React Native Brownfield Apps

Brownie is a new shared state library designed for React Native brownfield applications. It addresses a common pain point in mixed native and React Native codebases: keeping state consistent without building and maintaining custom Turbo Modules. With Brownie, teams define their state once in TypeScript and generate matching native types automatically. The article introduces the core ideas, shows how the workflow fits into real brownfield apps, and outlines what’s included in the iOS alpha release.

Oskar Kwaśniewski

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AI
1/16/2026

Announcing: React Native Best Practices for AI Agents

We’re publishing react-native-best-practices: a structured set of skills derived from The Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization, designed for AI coding agents working on React Native and Expo apps. The repo covers practical techniques across JavaScript, native iOS/Android, and bundling. All contribute to the metrics that matter: FPS and TTI.

Michał Pierzchala

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React Native
1/13/2026

Live Activities and Widgets with React: Say Hello to Voltra

Voltra is a new open-source library that lets you build iOS Live Activities and widgets using JSX in React Native. It removes much of the native Swift overhead while staying close to SwiftUI’s mental model.

Szymon Chmal

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React Native
12/22/2025

React Native Wrapped 2025: A Month-by-Month Recap of The Year

The first edition of React Native Wrapped looks back at the year RN turned 10 and the ecosystem doubled down on the New Architecture. It provides a month-by-month record of 2025, covering major framework releases, the Legacy Architecture freeze, React 19 integration, and notable developments across tooling, performance, styling, native modules, Expo, and platform adoption.

Michał Pierzchala

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Cross-Platform
12/19/2025

Visualizing the Dual-Thread Model of Lynx JS

If you’ve felt JS thread pressure in React Native, Lynx’s runtime will feel familiar and different at the same time. This article uses a simple jammer technique inspired by React Native experiments to reset expectations and provide a clear mental baseline. From there, it shows how Lynx’s dual-thread model keeps UI-critical work responsive, even when background JavaScript is completely blocked.

Łukasz Chludziński

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Hermes
12/18/2025

Why You Don’t Have to Minify JavaScript Code in React Native Apps

JavaScript minification is standard practice on the web, but React Native follows a different optimization path. This article explains how the Hermes engine compiles JavaScript into bytecode and applies dead code elimination during that step, making traditional minification largely unnecessary. It also shows how to verify what actually ships in production by decompiling Hermes bundles.

Davyd Narbutovich

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AI
12/16/2025

Profiling MLC-LLM’s OpenCL Backend on Android: Performance Insights

MLC-LLM can run LLMs fast on-device, but we hit a nasty Android issue: the first inference froze the system UI for up to 50 seconds, then everything was fine. This post walks through how we added Perfetto-compatible traces in MLC-LLM and kernel profiling in TVM/OpenCL, and why switching from _1 to _0 model formats fixed it on Adreno.

Artur Morys-Magiera

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React Native
12/12/2025

How to Cleanly Swap Between React Native Storybook 10 and Your App

This guide shows how to easily switch between React Native Storybook 10 and your main application using Expo or the Community CLI. It helps you go through the process without accidentally shipping Storybook in your production bundle. It highlights what has changed since the original 2023 guide, including Expo environment variables, improved Metro features, and Storybook’s new withStorybook helper.

Daniel Williams

Senior Software Engineer

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Virtual Reality
12/8/2025

Mobile vs. VR: Key Differences in Features, UI, and UX

This article highlights the core shifts developers face when moving from mobile screens to VR windows. It explains how windowing, typography, spacing, accessibility, and interaction patterns behave differently in a headset, and shows how to apply those changes in React Native. By understanding these differences, you can design 2D UIs that feel natural, readable, and comfortable on Meta Quest.

Jan Jaworski

Software Engineer

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React Native
12/2/2025

Deep Links With Authentication in React Navigation

This article walks through how to make deep links work when the screen is behind authentication, so the user automatically navigates to the correct deep link after logging in. It discusses manual approaches to implement this, the downsides of these approaches, and shows how React Navigation 7 introduces a built-in option with UNSTABLE_routeNamesChangeBehavior that makes it easier to handle.

Satyajit Sahoo

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1/28/2026

Bringing CSS Clipping to React Native

A deep look at how a single CSS feature moves through React Native’s New Architecture, from JavaScript styles to native rendering on iOS and Android.
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1/20/2026

Introducing Brownie: Type-Safe Shared State for React Native Brownfield Apps

A type-safe shared state library for React Native brownfield apps. Brownie syncs native and React state from a single TypeScript schema.
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Article
1/16/2026

Announcing: React Native Best Practices for AI Agents

We're turning React Native optimization knowledge into agent-ready skills (JS, native, bundling) mapped to FPS and TTI, built from real-world production work
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Article
1/13/2026

Live Activities and Widgets with React: Say Hello to Voltra

Voltra lets you build iOS Live Activities and widgets for React Native using JSX instead of Swift.
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12/22/2025

React Native Wrapped 2025: A Month-by-Month Recap of The Year

Seven major React Native releases in 2025, React Native turns 10, the New Architecture becomes the default, and 1.0 moves into view. A recap of 2025’s biggest RN updates.
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12/19/2025

Visualizing the Dual-Thread Model of Lynx JS

A practical look at Lynx JS’s dual-thread runtime, using real examples to show how main and background threads behave under load.
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1/15/2026

React And React Native: The Year Kick-Off

Start the year with a React and React Native ecosystem catch-up, live coding, and practical insights from Callstack engineers.
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12/18/2025

Building iOS Live Activities with React

Learn how to build iOS Live Activities and Dynamic Island experiences using pure JSX, no Swift or native code required.
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12/11/2025

React Native 0.83: A Stability-Focused Release With Surprisingly Big Quality-of-Life Wins

Join Łukasz Kewin for a walkthrough of React Native 0.83, recent ecosystem news, and hands-on demos.
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Podcast
1/12/2026

Building v0 iOS and Fixing React Native Along the Way

A technical look at building v0 mobile with React Native and Expo, covering iOS-first decisions, native modules, and fixes pushed to React Native core. Featuring Fernando Rojo, Szymon Rybczak, and Oskar Kwaśniewski.
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Podcast
12/17/2025

A (Secure) Christmas Carol: The Story of Npmezer Scrooge

A holiday story about npm audits, unpinned dependencies, and the real cost of ignoring JavaScript security warnings.
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Podcast
12/10/2025

Beyond Static vs. Dynamic: Next.js's New Unified Model

Aurora Scharff (Crayon Consulting) explains how Next.js is moving to a unified model that ends the static/dynamic split and helps developers manage Suspense boundaries.