React Native Tutorials and Best Practices
September 21, 2026 · AppReactors Team
Widgets are native-only surfaces — there is no React Native renderer for WidgetKit or Android Glance. Here is the architecture we use on client projects: expo-apple-targets and config plugins to own the native targets, App Groups and SharedPreferences to hand data across the process boundary, and a refresh strategy that does not burn your widget budget.
Read moreSeptember 21, 2026 · AppReactors Team
expo-av is gone. Here is how we move production apps to expo-video and expo-audio: the new player APIs, background audio and Picture-in-Picture, caching and offline playback, DRM options, and the lifecycle bugs that only show up on real devices.
Read moreSeptember 21, 2026 · AppReactors Team
Camera work is where React Native projects quietly lose weeks. This is how we decide between expo-camera and react-native-vision-camera, how frame processors and worklets actually run, and how to wire barcode scanning, document capture, and on-device OCR without melting the device or failing store review.
Read moreSeptember 18, 2026 · AppReactors Team
Most React Native teams don't slow down because of Hermes or the New Architecture — they slow down because a single app repo turned into five packages, two apps, and a 40-minute CI build. Here is the monorepo layout, caching strategy, and CI pipeline we set up for React Native clients, plus the failure modes that only show up once Metro has to resolve outside the app directory.
Read moreSeptember 17, 2026 · AppReactors Team
Chrome Remote Debugging is gone, Flipper is gone, and the debugger that replaced them is genuinely good — if you know what it can and cannot see. A practical tour of React Native DevTools, the React Native section of the Radon IDE, network and storage inspection on the New Architecture, and what to do when the failure is native and JavaScript tooling shows you nothing.
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