Major Shifts in Expo Architecture and the Rise of TanStack Start Welcome to issue #23 of React Weekly.
This week, we analyze structural updates from Expo, detailing inline native modules and Expo Router's decoupling from React Navigation.
We also dive deeply into the TanStack framework ecosystem, exploring critical security practices in TanStack Start, architectural rewrites, and new tool chains including Rsbuild and AI orchestration.  | | Building apps using TanStack Start | Lovable Starting May 13, new projects are Server-Side Rendered (SSR) and powered by TanStack Start. This post is for anyone wondering what changed - what's different, why we picked TanStack Start and what it means for the apps Lovable generates. |
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What They Changed to Make It Fast How Conductor rebuilt its app twice as fast: local-first SQLite, Tauri over Electron, TanStack Router, react-virtuoso, and Node to Bun. |
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 | | TanStack Start authentication: A developer's guide for 2026 — WorkOS Your beforeLoad guard does not protect your server functions. A complete guide to authentication in TanStack Start, from server functions and sessions to enterprise SSO. |
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 | | Expo Router v56: Decoupling from React Navigation Expo Router v56 forks from React Navigation, ships streaming SSR, and closes the platform gap with a new Android toolbar and Native Tabs updates. |
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 | | Native code in Expo SDK 56: inline modules and type generation Write Swift and Kotlin modules right next to your app files, then let SDK 56 generate the matching TypeScript interfaces automatically. |
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 | | Introducing Experimental Workflows and Orchestrators in TanStack AI Try the experimental TanStack AI orchestration PR build: generator-based workflows, typed agent calls, approvals, SSE streaming, AG-UI events, and React hooks. |
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 | | TanStack Start Adds First-Class Rsbuild Support | TanStack Blog TanStack Start now supports Rsbuild 2 alongside Vite, so teams can choose the build tool that best fits their stack, preferences, and infrastructure. |
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