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Alex Hunt

React Native at Meta. Loves dev tooling and productivity hacks. Avid climber and snowboarder. Optimist.

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⚛️ We've shipped a very-experimental /upgrade-react-native skill alongside React Native 0.84 today. Fast-tracks the essentials of upgrading (contributions welcome!). Supports any previous version → any target version ⚡ Try it: npx skills add react-native-community/skills

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⚛️ React Native Releases

React Native 0.83 - React 19.2, New DevTools features, no breaking changes

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Say hi to the new Developer Experience features we just announced at React Conf! ⚛️✨ (🧵 1/4) Coming in React Native 0.83, we're introducing new capabilities for performance, with support for several Web Performance APIs and the Performance Panel in React Native DevTools. These are a massive leap forward for JavaScript and React profiling features in a familiar, integrated UI.

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🎤 Talk / Podcast

React Conf 2025 React Native Keynote

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⚛️ React Native Releases

React Native 0.80 - React 19.1, JS API Changes, Freezing Legacy Arch and much more

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🎤 Talk / Podcast

Towards a Stable JavaScript API | App.js Conf 2025

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🎤 Talk / Podcast

RNR 316 - Debugging the Debugger

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Today we announced React Native DevTools, our next-gen + rewritten debugger stack for React Native, coming soon in 0.76.

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🎤 Talk / Podcast

The New React Native Debugger | React Universe Conf 2024

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⚛️ React Native Releases

React Native 0.74 - Yoga 3.0, Bridgeless New Architecture, and more

Today we're releasing React Native 0.74! This release adds Yoga 3.0, Bridgeless by default under the New Architecture, batched onLayout updates (New Architecture), and Yarn 3 as the default package manager for new projects.

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