Jacob Clausen
@entiendoNULL
Dad ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ฆ, traveller ๐๏ธ, dev ๐ป and martial artist ๐ฅ. Passionate about clean, scaleable code. On ๐ฆ too. React Native/Expo-enthusiast ๐ธ๐ช/๐ช๐จ
Built a fun lil' photo app with @expo and gave it some AI editing powers thanks to Gemini 2.0 Flash. Using expo-router + API routes, Galeria & Zeego by @FernandoTheRojo, and the smooth @swmansion react-native-reanimated. Stoked to introduce some of the new Expo server stuffโฆ
If you love React Native, @Expo and mobile engineering in general - come work with us :)
We are hiring at App&Flow! Fully remote (Canada), building or helping teams build the best RN/@expo apps. Looking for someone with initiative, deep RN knowledge, and some iOS or Android native experience. Fluency in French is a massive plus (some would say broken French ๐)
Sweet! ๐
You can now embed your own views inside the keyboard ๐คฏ With the release of [emailย protected] you can place custom UI (like a "Scan QR" button) right above the keys (using KeyboardExtender) โ no more typing long account numbers!
โVibe codingโ in full effect - great natural vibe powered by river flow, hummingbirds, colorful butterflies, and green mountain views while coding/wrapping up a customer @expo app ๐
Various website improvements from July expo.dev/changelog/mid-โฆ
๐ Expo ๐ค @Meta - We teamed up to deliver precompiled iOS builds in 0.81/SDK 54 - they could cut compile time by 10x. We're super excited about this for a lot of reasons but here are a few of the highlights: โ Faster builds: Compile RN once per release, saving hugeโฆ
Caught up with these guys (great devs and former colleagues) in Quito, Ecuador the other day. Besides catching up and having traditional Ecuadorian ceviche for lunch we also chatted about @reactnative and played around with a universal @expo app ๐ Great day! ๐ช๐จ๐
Tricks! Live photo+long exposure on flowing water creates magic ๐คฉ this is with default iOS camera app - no manual shutter configuration
New @expo example: graphQL server and client with โจautomatic type generationโจ! ๐งโโ๏ธ GraphQL Yoga - server ๐ URQL - client ๐ gql.tada - type generation โ๏ธ EAS Hosting - for API & web deployments github.com/expo/examples/โฆ
Hype! The native/web gap just got smaller now that Reanimated v4 is stable! This comes with a lot of good stuff, we're all in for a treat ๐๐๐ Awesome work!
React Native Reanimated 4 is now stable and ready for production ๐ Featuring CSS Animations & Transitions, multithreading with React Native Worklets and more.
This guy is casually calling ๐๐๐๐๐ inside a worklet running in a separate JS context on a background thread. Bundle Mode in ๐๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐-๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ gives completely new possibilities ๐คฏ
Turns out fetch in worklets wasn't really that hard ๐ Also please ignore my 1K+ problems. Big thanks to @tomekzaw for letting me scrape his website from the UI thread ๐
You asked (a lot). And the answer is yesโฆ Chain React is BACK ๐ July 30-31, 2026 ยท Portland, OR Presented by @infinite_red and @expo Be the first to know when tickets drop ๐ chainreactconf.com
Thank you @_philpl ๐
The GraphQL community celebrates Phil Pluckthun as a GraphQL star! Phil maintains gql.tada and co-created urql. It's always exciting to see what Phil (and Jovi!) come up with next. Thank you, Phil!
The reaction when showing @expo npx testflight to fellow devs
This post is so cool! ๐๐ Try snapai today! Save time! ๐๐๐
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๐ Running full native builds on every PR? You're wasting time. @betomoedano just dropped a new video showing how to cut React Native CI build times by up to 80% using: โก Expo Repack ๐งฌ Expo Fingerprint ๐ EAS Workflows Hereโs how it works โ
Make some noise for our RN-AI team ๐
Introducing Private Mind! ๐ Our new open-source app, built with React Native ExecuTorch, lets you run LLMs 100% locally on your device. ๐น Explore and swap pre-exported models ๐น Benchmark performance, speed & memory ๐น Customize system prompts ๐น 100% offline, private & freeโฆ
Yep, it's ๐ฅ
will do, legend list is the new default ๐
Awesome! Love to see react-native-screens is getting a boost like this. Future is lookin' bright! ๐
Announcing React Native Screens Overhaul โจ โณ Native Bottom Tabs on iOS and Android โณ iOS 26 โณ Support for the New & Legacy Architecture โณ More native primitives coming in the future Currently in Alpha ๐
EAS Hosting deployments and aliases can now be deleted via the EAS CLI