Native mail client in @expo.dev π¬ Having a ton of fun with the new NavigationSplitView Expo UI component in SDK 58 Staying close to native primitives makes your life so much easier
React βοΈ (WIP π§ͺ)
by @tom.sherman.is
(Experimental π§ͺ) React and React Native ecosystem feed
TIL about β.git-blame-ignore-revs Apparently, you can ask Git to ignore some commits in Git blame Useful if you reformat a lot of code at once and don't want it to pollute your Git blame with useless noise
π CSS scroll-driven animations - soon available everywhere Going to land in Firefox 159, the last major browser
Announcing the 2026 π Expo App Awards π The talent, the care, and the craft we see in the Expo community is staggering. The π Expo App Awards is a celebration of the apps and the people who build them. Submission criteria is simple: if your app uses Expo, submit it. expo.dev/awards/2026
You can literally build whatever you want with Skia, WebGPU and Claude.
π°Made $31 today > built with: @expo.dev > payment : @revenuecat.com > database: CloudKit > video host: @cloudflare.social Cost? under $10/m How do you market mobile apps?
Just got myself *another* cheap Thinkpad and getting back into Linux. Stay tuned for more Expo demos on bargain bin hardware. Digging Paseo for agent orchestration, Android Studio was easy to install as a Snap package and Expo Orbit had no trouble launching emulators after that.
This Week In React 299 βοΈ - Panda - Vinext - Next.js - Preact - Design Systems - RTK π± - Variable Font - Activity Result - Lynx - Lucent - macOS - Plain Text - RNav - Angular Native πΏ Read: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/299 βοΈ @jwr.ski & I
Android home screen widgets, coming in @expo.dev SDK 58 π¨π¨ All TypeScript, powered by expo-widgets
π Great new JS feature Can be used for sliding window algorithms, such as a moving average Should also work on infinite streams, computing the moving average lazily
π A11y update Element.ariaNotify() -> now Baseline Widely Available Triggers a screen reader announcement programmatically Now in all modern browsers (latest versions) -> for now, it can only be a progressive enhancement
π AbortController update - AbortSignal.any() -> now Baseline Widely Available - AbortSignal.timeout() -> will be very soon (2.5 years in all browsers) (also in all server runtimes)
Native Jetpack Compose carousels, straight from @expo.dev UI π Get the code below π§Ά
Cool to see my Expo UI examples auto-magically adapting to the iPhone Duo without any code changes. Hard not to love React Native + @expo.dev when stuff like this just works. Repo below π
AI model Jev is betting that not every software decision needs an LLM, @react.dev 19.3 quietly levels up, and Shopify is breaking up with @reactnative.dev for Swift and Kotlin. Plus, Claude hacked OpenAI, but ethically. Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/162/
The power of π Expo + LLMs is staggering. Nathan Schroeder built this app a day. It's called Amber and it's a place to save almost anything and let AI organize it all for you. Built on Expo + Convex + Clerk + AI SDK.
This Week In React 297 βοΈ - DevTools - Motion - Apollo - React Router - React Hook Form - shadcn lint π± - Shopify - Expo 58 beta - ExecuTorch - Screenmap - Lynx - Stim - Voltra πΏ Read: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/297 βοΈ @jwr.ski & I