Doug Lowder

Yes indeed, you can get through the day using only apps built with React Native and @expo.dev 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRH6...

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...

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?...

@expo.dev 🤝 Claude

What’s this? 🤔 Join the waitlist or contact us if you are interested 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

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

🎤 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

🙌 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

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...

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...

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”

The joys of being a developer 😀

It took a little longer than we wanted, but Ignite is upgraded to Expo SDK 54! github.com/infinitered/...

I tried to come up with something witty here, but really can’t improve on this quote 😃

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 ↓

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Lean for JavaScript Developers

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."

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...

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 🧵

Try out Expo UI on both mobile and TV! 😀 github.com/react-native...

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!

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 💦

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I’m (not) sorry if it makes me a nerd but one of my favorite hobbies is trying out new versions of React Native and Expo while they’re in previews. @frankcalise.dev did a great write up on what’s got us excited about @expo.dev SDK 54.

Whether it's a greenfield project or an incremental migration - we're seeing an overwhelming number of Enterprise applications adopting Expo this year. It's not an accident. It's the direct byproduct of 10 years of building this platform and listening to our community. expo.dev/solutions/en...

I wrote about how I built my app Ductts! cassidoo.co/post/ductts-...

Building apps is easier than ever. But shipping? Still brutal. Until now. 🚀 Today we're introducing Expo Launch. The fastest way to get to the app store. ◆ Skip config ◆ Skip certificates ◆ Skip the maze Press “Launch” → land in TestFlight. expo.dev/blog/introdu...

In Expo SDK 54, TV support will include React Native TV 0.81, dev client on tvOS, sqlite, background-task, etc. expo.dev/changelog/sd...

@expo.dev config plugin for politely asking the phone to give your app more RAM

Would your CTO hold the 🎤 for you? Great scene last night at our Seattle meetup - hosted by @jim.bsky.social & the @internetstudio.bsky.social team. @pfrazee.com, CTO of @bsky.app, holding the mic for @hailey.at to demo authentication with ATproto in Expo apps. Thanks to everyone who came out!

I’m going to have to upgrade my Apple TVs it seems apple.news/AFDsy4bYeR3W...

Folks: Stop saying that the Metropolitan Police Dept. is under "federal control." The Home Rule Act allows the president to declare an emergency and make requests of the Mayor for MPD services. Chief of Police Smith continues to report to Mayor Bowser. code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/counci...

The weirdest thing about Trump deploying the National Guard to the Nation's Capital is that he still hasn't released the Epstein files despite campaigning on that pledge, probably because he's directly complicit in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

🎮 Build 2D physics-based visuals in your React Native app with Matter.js + Skia. In this new blog post, @wa2goose.bsky.social shows how to simulate motion, collisions, and interaction—all using Expo, with TypeScript and zero native config. Link + starter project inside 👇 expo.dev/blog/build-2...

🥳 Very excited to co-host Chain React next summer with the good people of @infinite.red! See you in Rip City next July!

You never know who is going to take the bar stool next to you at The Beer Garden

Introducing react-native-wallet, built in collaboration with Expensify! 🚀 💳 A better way to add payment cards to Apple & Google Wallet 🔁 Truly cross-platform support for iOS & Android ⚡ Lightweight, dev-friendly, and easy to integrate 🔐 Secure, compliant, and production-ready in-app provisioning

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.