With the new year, we'd like to reflect on progress from last half and how community partnership has made it possible.
In our update, we highlight some amazing contributions and share more opportunities to support the New Architecture rollout. Thank you!
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0.67 is out! Our first release of the new year, happy 2022 everyone 🎉
Check out our post for more details on changes, release process improvements, and how you can help future React Native releases!
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New docs for your holiday reading!
We've just added a new "Architecture" section that features a deep dive of the new React Native renderer!
We hope to be adding more architecture docs in the new year! For now, happy holidays!!
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A present for your holidays: @reactnative's site has a new Architecture section populated with content about how the new Fabric renderer works written and edited by @SamuelSusla and @lunaleaps! Enjoy! reactnative.dev/docs/fabric-re
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Kevin () from the team recently spoke with React Native Radio about the new architecture! Take a listen for an overview of the project and its current rollout progress.
Thanks for hosting us!
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RNR 222 is out
We interview Meta engineer @fkgozali to discuss the React Native new architecture - TurboModules, Fabric, codegen, and whether React Native developers need to go learn C++!
@jamonholmgren @jonmajorc @mazenchami
#ReactNative
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Update: 0.67.0-rc.6 is out and we hope to release it as stable in the first weeks of 2022!
See release notes on how to try it out and where to report any issues -- thank you!
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Congratulations on the launch ! PyTorch Live brings together PyTorch and React Native, making it easier to bring on-device Machine Learning demos to life. We are so excited to see what people build!
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Introducing @PyTorchLive, an easy to use library of tools for creating on-device ML demos on Android and iOS. With Live, you can build a working mobile app ML demo in minutes. Learn more at pytorch.org/live and post your demo with #PyTorchLive.
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0.67.0-rc.3 (pre-release) is out and we're hoping to to promote this version to stable!
You can help by trying it out and reporting issues here:
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Registration for React Conf 2021 is now open!
React Conf will be hosted online for free December 8th 2021 at 10am PST. If you can’t make that time, we’re also hosting a replay event at 10:30pm PST!
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With community adoption and feedback, has flourished.
Today, we’d like to share all the progress we’ve made and the case for making Hermes the default engine for React Native.
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Thanks everyone for your questions! The team enjoyed answering them and will continue to follow-up in the next couple of days.
Check out our replies and let us know if you have any feedback for next time!
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Submit your questions for the React Native team now!
We'll be answering them this Thursday at 9am PT -- join us if you can!
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It's pretty amazing how quickly the React Org at Facebook is growing. We have a hugely ambitious roadmap and are growing to support so many company-level priorities. Our ability to grow right now is limited by our ability to find great Engineering Managers. We are hiring! 🧵
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React Native 0.66 is out!
General fixes and better support for Android 12, iOS 15 and Apple Silicon, as well as "commitly" builds on every PR!
See more details on our post and the list of release contributors that helped push this through -- thank you!
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React Native is continuing to hire for many roles! We are looking for engineers to work on Metro, React Native's bundler! Message Aleks if you are interested.
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@reactnative team is continuing to grow! We are hiring JavaScript infrastructure engineers to work on Metro, React Native’s bundler. If you are interested, DM me!
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We’re hosting an Ask Us Anything on Oct. 14 2021, 9am PT/12pm ET!
Recently we’ve shared updates on the new architecture rollout and Many Platform Vision and we’d love to hear what you think! Get your questions in now!
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As part of our Many Platform Vision reactnative.dev/blog/2021/08/2 we're working on aligning our APIs across platforms while enabling the best experience on each platform. We've just shared an RFC for changes to our accessibility APIs to align with ARIA.
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Messenger Desktop is our main partner at Facebook that we are working with on React Native for Desktop. They are hiring for a bunch of roles, come work with us!
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Come work with me on Messenger in Seattle/Bellevue!
I have 11 available roles on my teams:
- Frontend infra using React on the web
- Product engineering with React Native for desktop
- Desktop product infra using C++
DM me if you're interested!
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iOS 15 and Android 12 are coming soon! Is your app ready? We put together some gotchas to watch out for as you test!
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We are hiring engineering managers for desktop and VR, who will care deeply about the growth and success of our engineers, and are excited about our vision.
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As new devices are invented, we want React Native to be there for everyone. Today we're sharing our updated many-platform vision:
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The React Conf CFP closes Monday! We want to highlight what you're building with React and React Native—for your community, your family, your business. We'd love to hear and share your React Story ❤
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We're excited to share our roadmap for the rest of 2021, which includes growing out partnership with the community, beginning the architecture rollout in open source, and pushing the technology forward.
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React Native 0.65 is here! Performance and functional improvements to Hermes, Accessibility improvements, and many more!
Thank you to our release contributors, including , , , , , , and many others
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It's time again for the official React Community Survey! This year we’re asking the whole family: React, React Native, Relay—we want to hear from everyone! Your feedback helps us invest where it matters most.
Take the survey today: surveys.savanta.com/survey/selfser
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We reached a major milestone today!
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Today, React Native reached a major milestone - all 1K+ RN screens in the Facebook app use the new Fabric renderer. This is something we have been working toward since January 2018!
Next, we'll be starting to work on bringing this to open source for everyone to use - stay tuned!
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It's been one year since Facebook took the #GAADPledge to make React Native accessible. Thank you to all our contributors so far! Check out our update to see the progress we've made and how you can get involved.
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Check out this behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook has been measuring accessibility and finding opportunities to improve accessibility of the React Native framework.
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For #GAAD, we want to share how we developed a template for measuring the accessibility of @ReactNative and other frameworks we use at Facebook to build mobile apps: tech.fb.com/react-native-a #a11y @gbla11yday
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Amazing work, Coinbase!
They successfully migrated all of their mobile apps onto React Native, with improved app store ratings, performance, and crash rates than their native apps. 😍
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This year we've successfully upgraded our applications to React Native. In this blog we explore the engineering challenges and lessons for building React products at scale.
blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coi
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If you aren't using the Hermes JS Engine on Android in your React Native app, why is that?
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Wow. 40% faster. 🤯
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Hermes on iOS made the app start ~40% faster than JSC. Find out more about the @HermesEngine performance in our latest article 
by @souhepend
#reactnative #mobileapps #ios #javascriptcore
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#reactnative #mobileapps #ios #javascriptcore
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⚛️🛠 Hey React Native users, how do you use React DevTools?
- Global install from NPM33.7%
- Local install per project28.4%
- Flipper24%
- Something else (comment)13.9%
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Callstack brought Hermes to iOS in React Native 0.64. Hermes is Facebook’s JS engine originally built for Android. Check out their post to learn more. We can’t wait for the 2nd post in the series which will include benchmarks. Spoiler: It’s fassst
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For a long time, @HermesEngine was exclusive to #Android. Now it’s finally available on #iOS as well 
Learn more about what Hermes brings to the table and how can you benefit from using it by reading the article below!
#ReactNative #Hermes #JavaScript
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Learn more about what Hermes brings to the table and how can you benefit from using it by reading the article below!
#ReactNative #Hermes #JavaScript
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Facebook's open source mission is to empower diverse communities. We stand with them and our community against racism. #StopAsianHate
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Our team’s mission is to empower diverse communities through open source. We stand with our community against racism. #StopAsianHate twitter.com/Meta/status/13…
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React Native 0.64 is now available! Lots of exciting improvements, the largest of which is the support added for Hermes on iOS!
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We are excited to share the first update for the Facebook #GAADPledge Project of this year. This is a great opportunity for current and new contributors to help make React Native more accessible for everyone!
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Read how the newest addition to our showcase used React Native to go beyond the browser. nerdwallet.com/blog/engineeri
> unlocking ... blazing time-to-market, impressive development efficiency, and powerful leverage of technology and talent across NerdWallet Engineering.
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We’re creating an all new showcase for the React Native website and we’re looking for feedback from the community! DM if you’re interested!
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medium.com/@and.global/pr
> Trust is an essential feature when providing financial services through a mobile application...Especially if users are spending their cellular data in a developing country where mobile data is considerably more expensive than the developed world
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- corporate.foreca.com/en/news/how-to
> For small teams like ours that only have one to two front-end developers working on the app interface, the multi-platform nature of React Native is quite essential.
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