You can now also write VR apps for Quest devices with React Native.
Expo Go is now available on the Horizon Store so you can bring your apps to Horizon with the blink of an eye!

We showcased how the Instagram and Facebook VR apps have been entirely written with React Native.

This allowed us to reuse much code from web, while also allowing new capabilities such as parallax effects on Instagram.

Apps built with React Native are also Award Winning.

Last year we saw several apps built with React Native reaching the top of app stores such as:

- Rise (Apple Design Awards Finalist)
- Runna (App Store Best App Finalist)
- Partiful (Google Play Best App 2024)

The React Native ecosystem is stronger than ever!
2,000+ libraries on reactnative.directory
2,700+ unique contributors

This year we also moved to shipping 6 releases a year, allowing you to get new features and bug fixes more frequently than ever.

Folks are downloading react-native on npm over 4 million times a week, that 100% growth from last React Conf!

And, coming later in React Native 0.83, you'll be able to profile and understand your app more intuitively, with native support for the Performance panel and Network panel in React Native DevTools.

4/ Web Performance APIs and New Tooling

It's easier than ever to understand your app's performance thanks to newly added Performance APIs from the web. These provide new runtime profiling capabilities, and work in both development and production builds.

2/ Hermes V1

Today we also announced Hermes V1, the next evolution of our JavaScript Engine!

Hermes V1 shows a 60% avg improvement on synthetic benchmarks, includes improved modern JS support, and ships today in 0.82 as experimental.

What we just announced at React Conf

1/ The New Architecture is now the ONLY supported Architecture for React Native. Starting with v0.82, you won't be able to opt-out from New Architecture anymore.

React Native 0.82 ships with a performance improvement for local development on Android: debugOptimized.

With debugOptimized, you'll now benefit from smoother animations and a snappier experience while you’re developing your app on Android.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the release of React Native 0.82, live from React Conf in Las Vegas 🎉

Good morning from Day 2 of React Conf!

Refreshed New App Screen

We've moved the New App Screen into its own package and given it a fresh coat of paint. It's a simplified starting point, and now provides a better experience on larger screens.

Android - Smaller APK size thanks to IPO

React Native 0.80 ships with a significant size reduction for all Android apps, thanks to enabling Interprocedural Optimization on React Native and Hermes builds.

Faster Metro startup

Metro is >3x faster to cold start, with bigger speedups on larger projects - great news for monorepos and CI builds.

This was achieved by deferring source hashing to only read files actually bundled, greatly reducing IO with negligible impact on build speed.

Opt-in for JavaScript logs in Metro

In response to user feedback, we've added an opt-in to restore JavaScript log streaming in Metro, previously removed in 0.77. To opt in, use the new --client-logs flag.

This feature remains deprecated and will be removed in future.