Articles for the React Native tag – Page 3
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Expo UI: Real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, Straight From React
For years React Native faked native UI with flexbox and StyleSheet. Expo UI stops faking it and hands you the real platform toolkits.
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Expo Widgets: iOS Home-Screen Widgets Without Touching SwiftUI
iOS widgets used to mean cracking open Xcode and writing SwiftUI by hand. The official expo-widgets module lets a JavaScript-first team build them in React instead.
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Clerk for Expo: Native Mobile Auth Without the Headache
Building auth in a mobile app is a deceptively large pile of work. Clerk for Expo hands you the whole thing as a managed service plus a thin, polished SDK.
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React Native for Windows: Real Native Desktop, No Chromium Required
If you already ship a React Native app on mobile and you've been eyeing the Windows desktop, this one is for you. React Native for Windows brings your components and JS logic to real native Windows controls, no Electron-sized memory bill attached.
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Turn-by-Turn, the Google Way: The React Native Navigation SDK
Most React Native map tutorials stop at drawing a line on a map. This one hands you the actual navigation engine — voice, rerouting, and all.
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Detox: The E2E Framework That Runs Inside Your React Native App
If you have ever sprinkled sleep(3000) through a mobile test suite and prayed, this one is for you. Detox takes a radically different approach to end-to-end testing.
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Rozenite: The Missing Plugin Layer for React Native DevTools
When Flipper left React Native's default template, a lot of beloved debugging panels went with it. Rozenite brings them back, this time living inside the official DevTools window you already open.
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Pick a Date, the Native Way, with React Native DateTimePicker
Date and time pickers are one of those UI problems that look trivial until you try to build one. This library skips the reinvention and hands you the exact controls every phone already ships.
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React Navigation: Charting a Course Through Your React Native App
React Native ships with no router at all. React Navigation has spent years filling that gap, and its v7 static API makes wiring up screens cleaner than ever.
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Expo Router: File-Based Navigation That Crosses Every Screen
If you have ever wired up React Navigation by hand and longed for the comfort of a Next.js app directory, Expo Router is the bridge you have been waiting for.