Welcome to Day 2 of the React Native Advent Calendar!
Today we’re doing something a bit different – instead of a long-form tutorial, I’m sharing the latest episode of the Rocket Ship podcast, packed with fresh React Native news and a behind-the-scenes look at my new farming game Tiny Harvest.
🎧 Listen to the podcast
In episode 086 – CSS Grid, Faster JSON, Uniwind Experience, React Native Rails & Tiny Harvest Game Update, we talk about:
React Native Radar
- Gifted Chat v3 rewrite with a modern API and performance fixes
- The new
expo-targetslibrary for advanced project configuration - React Navigation
PageSheetpresentation style - ActionSheet v10 with a cleaner API and better native behavior
- Skia
zIndeximprovements that make layering more intuitive - Faster JSON parsing work from Tzvetan Mikov
- Expo Brownfield Target for integrating React Native into existing native apps
- CSS Grid coming to React Native via Yoga
- Radon IDE’s React Native–focused workflow
- Apple’s new Mini Apps Program
- How Vercel built the v0 iOS app
From my projects
- What I’ve learned using Uniwind in real-world apps
- Shipping the AI-assisted farming game Tiny Harvest on iOS & Android
👉 Listen to the full episode on Rocket Ship
🎥 Watch the YouTube version
Prefer watching instead of listening? You can also catch this episode (and the Tiny Harvest story) as a video:
Wrapping up Day 2
That’s it for Day 2 – a cozy mix of React Native updates, tooling discoveries, and a peek behind the curtain of building and launching Tiny Harvest in just a few days.
If you listen or watch today’s episode, I’d love to hear what you think:
- Which React Native update are you most excited about?
- Would you like to see more behind-the-scenes game dev content like Tiny Harvest?
See you tomorrow for Day 3 of the React Native Advent Calendar! 🚀