Expo Prebuild, Demystified

Get ready for an annual deep dive into the latest trends in React and Web development. Learn from engineers behind the framework ecosystem and early adopters at the main React Conference in the UK.The concept of the event is both about covering all you need to catch up on in the React ecosystem, combined with deep technical exploration of the latest architectural trends, new feature adoption, and efficient ways to solve complex problems.Engage in discussion rooms, hallway track with experts, hands-on practical workshops, and tens of insightful talks. Engineers of any level are welcome but be prepared for hardcore.

React Advanced

React Advanced 2024

Jamie Birch

React Summit US

React Summit US 2024

From bridgeful, to bridgeless, to Expo Modules and Static Hermes, the landscape of native modules in React Native is ever-evolving. Cross-pollination, however, has always been limited – it is rare for React Native to use native modules from other ecosystems, and vice versa. In this talk, we introduce Node-API, a popular standard for exposing native APIs to JavaScript in an ABI-stable manner, no matter the engine. Used in Node.js and most other major JavaScript runtimes, it is the ideal technology for sharing native modules cross- ecosystem. We'll show how it's being used by Microsoft in React Native Windows already, and what it may mean for the future of React Native!

React Native, Meet node.js Native Addons

Expo, the official framework of choice for building React Native apps, has both a "managed" workflow (where you purely write JS, just using what the SDK offers) and a "bare" workflow (where you can write custom native code). To opt into the bare workflow, one has to "prebuild" one's apps to expose all the native boilerplate. Expo Prebuild is widely used, but it can be a little unclear exactly what it does and how it does it all (such as how it can bring your native project back up to date after you bump the Expo SDK version). In particular, its capability of generating native projects from custom templates is underused. Following this talk, though, we hope to change all that!