The Expo Takeover & Prisma’s EvolutionWelcome to the 10th issue of React Weekly! 🎉 What started as a small project to keep the community updated has grown into a weekly ritual, and I couldn't be more excited about the content we have today.
If you thought Expo was done with SDK 55, think again. This week, they’ve essentially launched a mini-ecosystem of their own: Expo Observe (first-party observability), a new Brownfield integration guide for those stuck in legacy native apps, and official support for Live Activities and Home Screen Widgets.
On the web and backend side, Prisma is officially entering its "next evolution," focusing heavily on edge runtimes and serverless-friendly footprints. We also have the arrival of shadcn/ui CLI v4, which is set to change how we distribute and use component registries.
Finally, a quick look at how TanStack is preparing for our new robot overlords by optimizing their documentation for AI coding agents.
Let's dive into our biggest issue yet! |
📰 Article Announcing React Native Evals: An Open-Source Benchmark for AI Coding Models We built an open-source benchmark to measure how AI coding models handle real React Native tasks, such as animations, async state, navigation, and more. By Mike Grabowski react-native
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📰 Article Expo brownfield: How to add Expo to your existing native app without a rewrite Add Expo to an existing native iOS/Android app without a rewrite. Learn the new isolated brownfield workflow in Expo SDK 55. By Jacob Clausen react-native • expo
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📰 Article How to upgrade to Expo SDK 55 How to upgrade to Expo SDK 55: step-by-step tips, New Architecture migration advice, breaking changes, and troubleshooting for a smooth update. By Keith Kurak react-native • expo
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📢 News The Next Evolution of Prisma ORM A look at Prisma Next, a ground-up rethink of Prisma that improves queries, extensibility, migrations, and AI-friendly workflows while keeping Prisma’s schema-first approach. By Prisma Team
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📢 News shadcn/cli v4 More capable, easier to use. Built for you and your coding agents. Skills, presets, dry run, new templates, monorepo and more. By shadcn next.js • react • tailwind css • components • shadcn
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📢 News Introducing Expo Observe (Private Preview) - Expo Changelog Joint the waitlist to test Expo Observe: our new Observability product to help you see how your app is performing in the real world. By Kadi Kraman react-native • expo
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📢 News Introducing TanStack Intent: Ship Agent Skills with Your npm Packages | TanStack Blog Your docs are good. Your types are solid. Your agent still gets it wrong. Not because it's dumb — because nothing connects what you know about your tool to what agents know. Docs target humans who bro... By Sarah Gerrard, Kyle Mathews react • tanstack • typescript
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🛠️ Tool Home screen widgets and Live Activities in Expo The new expo-widgets library lets you build home screen widgets and Live Activities using Expo UI components, with zero native setup. By Jakub Grzywacz react-native • expo
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🛠️ Tool Expo Router v55: more native navigation, more powerful web Expo Router v55 upgrades navigation with a new Stack API, native tabs, dynamic colors, and toolbars plus experimental SSR and data loaders. By Jakub Tkacz, Hassan Khan react-native • expo |
Hitting Issue #10 feels like just the beginning. The React ecosystem is healthier (and faster) than ever, and I'm thrilled to be documenting it alongside you all every week.
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See you next Sunday! |