Josh McFarlin

Panel 1: "Hi! My name is Jason". Panel 2, second person: "Ah! Nice to meet, you Jason". Panel 3, the person is taking that name and trying to jam it into their brain, where there are already some squares in their cartoon head. A small rectangle says "friends", a small one says "family", and a much larger one is the Expo logo. The first person's name is squished going in, clearly not sinking in. Panel 4, second person: "Say Jarvis, wanna hear about building truly universal native apps with React ath run on Android, iOS, and the web?"

Sometimes people ask me for my opinions about React Native tech and it's basically just this.

⚡️ Build an app and deploy it with Bolt.new and Expo YouTube video by Expo

⚡️ Build an app and deploy it with Bolt.new and Expo

youtu.be/iCwxkm2PkQE

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✍️ @kitten.sh
📽️ @kadi.bsky.social

expo.dev/blog/expo-an...

This is an interesting detail about the v1 Bluesky mobile app built single-handedly by @pfrazee.com - which was supposed to be a proof of concept only! But became *the* mobile app.

Also shows the power of cross-platform:

1 dev
1 codebase
3 platforms (iOS, Android, web)
Using Expo!

Maybe a SSH agent will eventually come to the Mac version, but until then I’m staying with 1Password

Logging on

Expo SDK 52: Our largest release ever! YouTube video by Expo

🥳 It's time to party!

We have announcements, blog posts, videos, and livestreams scheduled throughout the week.

⚡ And we're getting things started today with an SDK 52 Highlight video: youtu.be/quZv3uKSEfY?...

📌

Every PR review would be better if people just recorded a 2 minute loom explaining what they built

The latest @expo.dev SDK contains SO many new things 😱

To name a few:

- DOM Components
- Several new packages
- RN 0.76
- Expo Router v4
- CLI & Expo Modules improvements
- RSC
- Headless UI components

Still trying to figure out how to put all of that into a <15 min video 😂

I’m filming a video about Bluesky today, what should I make sure to mention? Hoping to have a positive React Native spin on it

Expo and React Native have been enormous enablers for us. If you’re building an app — especially a multi platform app — I strongly recommend that you put Expo/RN at the top of your list

The #1 app in the US is an Expo app

Modern software:

Getting started with the Froob framework.

To run Froob, you can use Biddle or Sproxnut. If you use Sproxnut, you'll also want to install a Grattle-handler like Lux or Jujuba.

It is also possible to run Froob in open mode under Rattlefunk. This is preferable in some scenarios.

twitter was so bad for so long that i forgot how fun this is

so we better make this place work huh 😅

Cosmo's Midnight

Big fan of Cosmos Midnight when working

open.spotify.com/artist/4Vivs...

the amount of pure value expo has created must be astronomical. i don’t think react native would be viable for smaller companies without it. and it’s free. wild

trying react native without expo to make a reproducing project and let me tell you, it’s a world of pain

i did not realize how much expo was doing for us