Live stream happening right now on Expo Observe -- see what is happening with your React Native apps in production! www.youtube.com/watch?v=INfX...
How is your app actually doing in production? | Introducing Observe
YouTube video by Expo
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Doug Lowder
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Currently at @expo.dev . Building and maintaining React Native for Apple TV and Android TV. https://github.com/react-native-tvos/react-native-tvos
Turns out you did not "have to be there" for this one. @kadi.bsky.social's Chain React talk was recorded! Excellent introduction to a new service that measures the performance of your app on real user devices: youtu.be/G9RoD_QpJYQ?...
How is your app actually doing in production — Kadi Kraman | Chain React 2026
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What’s this? 🤔 Join the waitlist or contact us if you are interested expo.dev/services/sim... 👀
EAS Simulator: Simulators built for agents
Spin up secure cloud simulators on demand. Your agents install a build, drive it, and verify their own work, running as many in parallel as you need.
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Expo@expo.dev · 2w agoWaitlist: expo.dev/services/sim...
Bluesky is actually really fun if you block the right 27,000 people
A few weeks ago I spoke at App.js conf again this year. Talk was called “Accessibility in Motion,” diving into what it actually takes to make RN apps usable for everyone. Thanks to everyone who came and asked questions after. 🙌 🫶 youtu.be/e_v94iKMcT8?si… #ReactNative #a11y
Britta Evans-Fenton – Accessibillity in Motion | App.js Conf 2026
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Expo SDK 57 will be the easiest upgrade you've ever made. One command. No breaking changes. And boom, you're on React Native 0.86. It's also the first step toward a new release cadence we're considering: optional, non-breaking upgrades between the big SDKs: try.expo.dev/bluesky-sdk57
Expo SDK 57 - Expo Changelog
Check out new updates and improvements to Expo and EAS from the Expo team.
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🎤 Announcing: Mazen Chami You’ve heard @mazenchami.dev on React Native Radio & Live... now see him in person!! Mazen speaks at conferences worldwide AND he's been a key contributor to RN releases. 🔥 Join us in Portland for Chain React 2026! 🎟️ ti.to/chainreact/c...
🥳 We raised some money. Expo is the best it's ever been, and this round of funding will help us get a lot better. With this money we can go faster on the things that matter: faster builds, smoother native integrations, and better e-2-e DX. Charlie wrote about what's next: expo.dev/blog/what-ex...
🎙️The amazing @ccheever.com is going to talk at our meetup with @workos.bsky.social next week in SF. Prepare yourself for an AI demo, behind-the-scenes intel about what we're cooking, and some wild metaphors that map everything back to reality. luma.com/tymmwme5
Expo Everywhere in San Francisco · Luma
SF devs, let’s build better React Native apps together! If you're shipping with React Native (or exploring mobile), join us for an evening of practical…
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🙌 Introducing Expo Agent Build truly native iOS and Android apps from a prompt. Anything from React to SwiftUI to Jetpack Compose. Compile and deploy for Apple, Android, and the web right from the browser! youtu.be/3yyy32R0s2k
Introducing Expo Agent (beta): build real, production-quality native apps from your browser
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Less is more: Bundle diffing comes to EAS Update. Instead of downloading the full bundle on every update, devices now receive a binary patch of only what changed. Result: ~75% smaller downloads. ♦ A 3MB update drops to ~0.75MB ♦ Opt-in beta, safe fallback to full bundles expo.dev/blog/ship-sm...
Ship smaller OTA updates: bundle diffing comes to EAS Update in SDK 55
SDK 55 introduces bundle diffing in EAS Update. Devices now download patches instead of full bundles, reducing download sizes by up to 75%.
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Expo SDK 55 is out 😅 RN 0.83, React 19.2 & a long list of things that make your app faster, smaller, & easier to build ♦ Hermes bytecode diffing cuts update sizes by ~75% ♦ Brownfield support gets a serious upgrade ♦ MCP now queries EAS + TestFlight crashes Full changelog: expo.dev/changelog/sd...
Expo SDK 55 - Expo Changelog
Learn about the changes and how to upgrade
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feels cruel for Bluesky to have a Popular With Friends tab, if any of us were popular with friends we wouldn't be on Bluesky
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
Saw Super Bowl ad for new “Disclosure Day” movie and all I could hear was “Epstein Files Disclosure Day”
It took a little longer than we wanted, but Ignite is upgraded to Expo SDK 54! github.com/infinitered/...
feat: upgrade to Expo SDK 54 by coolsoftwaretyler · Pull Request #2984 · infinitered/ignite
Description This PR will upgrade Ignite to Expo 54. Moslty package.json changes, with a couple notable additions: Bumps to Expo 54, and all its required dependencies from install --fix (as of the ...
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I tried to come up with something witty here, but really can’t improve on this quote 😃
Corey Quinn@quinnypig.com · 11mo ago“Increasingly, we're finding that when we launch innovative new things at Reinvent it's valuable if we can actually launch them, as opposed to just pre-announce them," Matt Garman said at an internal all-hands meeting. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
The new 𝝠 Expo home page is live: expo.dev We were overdue for a new home that tells the story of what Expo has become: Everything you need to build apps. We added more pages to explain how Expo serves different stages of business growth across different industries. We'll 🧵 some of those below ↓
Expo
Expo is an open-source platform for making universal native apps for Android, iOS, and the web with JavaScript and React.
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⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Lean for JavaScript Developers
Lean for JavaScript Developers — overreacted
Programming with proofs.
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Low key one of my favourite React Native Skia Animations I've ever made
This is excellent and nuanced writing. "The same values that make us horrified at his violent death are the ones that should embolden our commitment to defeating the politics he worked for in life."
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12mo agoCharlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan
Have you heard the good news? California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient. This article made my day! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online
The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.
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there's a lot of exciting things going on in SDK 54, but the less exciting changes will hopefully make your upgrade smoother and your everyday DX with dependencies more stable 💕 All kinds of reliability improvements land in SDK 54! small thread about those 🧵
Expo@expo.dev · 12mo ago𝝠 Expo SDK 54 is LIVE 🚀 ◆ React Native 0.81 ◆ Precompiled RN for iOS → faster clean builds ◆ iOS 26 Liquid Glass icons + views ◆ Android 16 target, edge-to-edge default ◆ Router v6 native tabs ◆ Updates: header overrides, progress, reload screen ◆ So much more... expo.dev/changelog/sd...
Try out Expo UI on both mobile and TV! 😀 github.com/react-native...
GitHub - react-native-tvos/ExpoUITV
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Expo@expo.dev · 12mo ago🚀 Expo SDK 54 brings SwiftUI & Liquid Glass to React Native. With Expo UI, you can: ◆ Use native SwiftUI primitives directly in JS ◆ Apply iOS 26’s Liquid Glass effects ◆ Build full apps with SwiftUI containers Blog from @kudochien.dev @nishan.dev @aleqsio.com ↓ expo.dev/blog/liquid-...
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Expo TV templates and demos have been updated to the new SDK release, and to React Native TV 0.81.4-0. The UpdatesAPIDemo repo has also been updated for SDK 54 and includes examples of the new expo-updates features!
Expo@expo.dev · 12mo ago𝝠 Expo SDK 54 is LIVE 🚀 ◆ React Native 0.81 ◆ Precompiled RN for iOS → faster clean builds ◆ iOS 26 Liquid Glass icons + views ◆ Android 16 target, edge-to-edge default ◆ Router v6 native tabs ◆ Updates: header overrides, progress, reload screen ◆ So much more... expo.dev/changelog/sd...
Join us tomorrow at 12pm ET for episode 4 of React Native Mornings! Gabriel Donadel is going to demo all the new features of @expo.dev SDK 54! Including the new Liquid Glass UI 💦
Infinite Red@infinite.red · 12mo agoHAPPENING TOMORROW 🚨 Calling all @expo.dev fans!! Tomorrow @mazenchami.dev hosts a special RNM with Gabriel Donadel from Expo! 📆 Wed, Sep 10 | 9am PT 📍 Live on YouTube + X 🔔 Set a reminder www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVW...