The AI Agent Era & Astro 6Welcome to Issue #11! After the high-fives of our 10th anniversary, the industry decided to keep the momentum going with some heavy-hitting updates.
The big story this week is the Expo Agent Beta. We’ve been talking about AI for months, but seeing a first-party assistant baked directly into the Expo CLI feels like a major shift in how we’ll be debugging and building going forward.
We’re also tracking the path to React Navigation 8, a major milestone for Astro 6, and a very interesting architectural shift from the TanStack team called "Generation Hooks." Whether you're building for the web or pushing the limits of native hardware APIs, there's something here to help you work a little bit faster this week. |
📰 Article The next generation of Expo APIs: MediaLibrary and Contacts SDK 55 brings the next iteration of our core libraries. Shared Objects & Shared Refs fundamentally change how to interact with native data with these libraries. By Wiktor Smaga react-native • expo
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📰 Article Generation Hooks: Type-Safe AI Beyond Chat | TanStack Blog Chat is just the beginning. Your AI-powered app probably needs to generate images, convert text to speech, transcribe audio, summarize documents, or create videos. Until now, wiring up each of these a... By Alem Tuzlak react • tanstack • typescript • ai
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📢 News Introducing Expo Agent (beta): build native apps with Expo and AI Describe the app you want. Expo Agent builds it. A real, shippable native app for iOS, Android, and the web. Join the waitlist to try the beta. By Expo Team react-native • expo
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📢 News React Navigation 8.0 - March Progress Report | React Navigation We've been busy since the first alpha release of React Navigation 8.0. Our main focuses have been improving the DX around deep linking and TypeScript, and using modern features and patterns such as React.Activity and other React features such as Suspense, React Native features as PlatformColor, validation with Standard Schema etc. By Satyajit Sahoo react-native
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📢 News Astro 6.0 Astro 6 is here with a refactored dev server, an experimental Rust compiler, live content collections, CSP, and more. By Astro Team
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💡 Quick Tip 6 Expo UI Tips I Learned Building Production Apps | Code with Beto Practical Expo UI tips from building production apps with SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose. Covers ignoreSafeArea, matchContents, RNHostView, platform extensions, and native colors. By Alberto Moedano react-native • expo |
As we start our second "decade" of issues, it's clear that the tools are getting smarter, so we don't have to work harder. Spend some time playing with that new Expo Agent—it might just be your new favorite pair programmer.
Thanks for reading, and happy coding! See you next Sunday. |