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Szymon is a passionate software developer and a Microsoft MVP in web development. He is the creator of Rozenite, a plugin framework for React Native DevTools, and a member of the Callstack Incubator, where he focuses on building next-generation tooling to improve the React Native testing workflow. With extensive experience in React, React Native, Next.js, and Node.js, Szymon is dedicated to exploring cutting-edge technologies and advancing the developer experience.

Remember the days of Flipper, and how it was designed to be extensible? While the new React Native DevTools are a huge step forward, they still lack a crucial element: a robust plugin system. That's why I created Rozenite. I went down the rabbit hole, reverse-engineering the core DevTools architecture not to fork it, but to build a clean, powerful plugin framework right on top of it.In this talk, I'll walk you through the journey of how I built Rozenite. You'll discover how the DevTools communicate, how to hook into the system cleanly, and how my framework enables developers to build their own plugins with powerful, sandboxed execution and native React-based UIs. No matter if you are building a devtool for yourself or the community — Rozenite is there to help you.

The following course is designed for developers who have production experience with React Native.

The scope dives deep into the native side of the framework. It’s a very low level in terms of React Native development. The course tackles a lot of iOS and Android application development topics. It’s perfect for gaining a comprehensive overview of mobile app creation and lets you look at React Native differently.

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Matt Pocock is a world-renowned developer, educator, and author of Total TypeScript and AI Hero. He lives in Oxford, and thinks that Polish devs are probably the best in the world.

The course is designed for developers who have production experience with TypeScript and React and want to learn more about AI.The scope dives deep into the practical side of AI development with the Vercel AI SDK v5. It's a very hands-on workshop focused on building real AI applications that users actually want to use. The course tackles the modern AI development stack - from building agents, streaming responses and production monitoring. Whether you're looking to deepen your AI expertise or simply want to understand the tools you're already using in Cursor, Windsurf, and VSCode, this workshop will transform how you think about AI-powered development.

Anisha is a React Native Developer Advocate at Amazon where she is focused on engaging and enabling app developers. When she's not writing guidebooks on developing for TV, you can find her refactoring recipes and savoring bytes across the world

This talk explores the generational divide in React development, examining how different learning journeys have shaped developers approaches to the framework. We'll trace React's evolution from the "Class Component Generation" to the "Hooks Generation," to the emerging "Compiler Generation" understanding how these distinct starting points influence coding styles, preferences, and best practices.

Principal Engineer at Callstack. Passionate about building mobile and web experiences, high quality JS tooling and Open Source. Core React Native Community & Jest contributor. Space exploration enthusiast.

CTO and Founder at Callstack. Developer Experience is my passion. In the past, I worked on “react-native link”, “auto-linking” and the CLI. When not coding, I am probably on a race track!

Jorge is an Engineering Manager on the React team at Meta, where he supports the developer experience and open source efforts, working on projects like React Native's stability, Metro, React DevTools, and the React Native DevTools. He has a background in cross-platform mobile development and has previously led engineering teams at Citymapper and Meta Reality Labs, working on emergent platforms and products that explore new interaction paradigms. With over 20 years of experience, Jorge is passionate about building software that empowers developers. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, tinkering with emulators, and exploring the intersection of technology and design history.

We’ve been shipping React Native faster than ever, and not without a good reason. It’s about making things more predictable and stable for you. So, join us on this journey as we move towards a more stable future. Next stop: one-poin…?!This talk will present React’s strategic overhaul of the React Native release process. We will reveal internal initiatives and processes designed to address community feedback, dramatically reduce breaking changes, decrease release effort, and deliver truly predictable release schedules, on a path towards stability. You’ll finally understand why we make the decisions we make, learn the inner workings of our release process and the rationale behind these changes. You'll discover how this directly translates into a more stable, efficient, and developer-friendly experience for the entire React Native community, ultimately making upgrades simpler, your apps stabler and the ecosystem healthier!

Rene is a Software Engineer at Zalando SE who’s primarily contributing to Zalando’s in-house framework, bringing it to apps with React Native and envisioning a cross platform architecture. Outside working hours he loves tinkering small toy projects with Rust and is happy to philosophise about programming language design.

This talk dives deep into technical details of our ongoing React Native adoption for the Zalando App. It will cover our non-standard brownfield integration strategy and the challenges we faced achieving seamless interoperability with existing native app code. We'll detail our architectural choices, including the use of React Strict DOM as a core foundation for future web and mobile unification. Plus, we'll share insights into the design and tradeoffs of reusing Zalando's existing internal React framework to extend React Native's capabilities and establish the same overarching patterns across platforms, bridging the gap between our web and app products.

Riccardo is a Software Engineer with 7 years of experience in iOS development. He joined Meta and the React org in March 2022. Since then he mainly worked on the Open Source build system for iOS and on the rollout of the New Architecture in the Open Source. In his free time, he writes technical articles on Swift, runs, plays tennis and drums.

Nicola Corti is a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin. He has been working with the language since before version 1.0, and he is the maintainer of several open-source libraries and tools for mobile developers. He's currently working in the React Native Core team at Meta, building one of the most popular cross-platform mobile framework.Furthermore, he is an active member of the developer community.His involvement goes from speaking at international conferences to being a member of CFP committees and supporting developer communities across Europe.In his free time, he also loves baking, podcasting, and running.

I'm a frontend engineer, a technical author with 5+ books published and an avid reader. Since 2017, I've blogged extensively, with my blogs garnering well over 4 million views. I don't promise to know everything, and love fiddling with new technologies.

We moved to React Native at HelloFresh and used GenAI to speed up the effort. Here's a real-world journey of leveraging coding agents to analyse and automate the conversion of web components to native mobile UI, streamlining cross-platform consistency and cutting weeks of manual refactor work down to hours.

I'm a passionate programmer who decided to go beyond JavaScript and dive into React Native internals and native languages. I love coding for everything from mobile to backend, and I enjoy sharing my knowledge with the community. Building multiple things at once? That's me! I'm actively exploring new technologies to master my skills.

Matt Pocock is a world-renowned developer, educator, and author of Total TypeScript and AI Hero. He lives in Oxford, and thinks that Polish devs are probably the best in the world.

There's just one library you need for building AI-powered applications in TypeScript - Vercel's AI SDK. Learn how to build any AI-powered feature, prevent model lock-in, and integrate it into your React apps.

Marc Rousavy is CEO at Margelo, a high-end React Native app development agency. Marc is also a React Native core contributor and maintainer of a lot of popular open-source libraries in the React Native ecosystem such as react-native-vision-camera, Nitro Modules, and react-native-mmkv.

I’ve been passionate about technology since childhood, starting with electronics and embedded systems (a long time before Arduino was a thing). I graduated in Automation and Robotics but ultimately found my calling in web development. With over 10 years of professional experience, I’ve spent the last 3 years at Klarna as a member of one of the Client Core teams. We focus on the foundations of the Klarna RN application, building tools and infrastructure that serve tens of millions of users worldwide.

One of the greatest advantages the web has over native apps is the ability to ship updates instantly. React Native’s Over-The-Air (OTA) feature promises similar agility—but is it really that simple?

In this talk, I’ll explore the challenges, pitfalls, and successes involved in creating a robust OTA solution from scratch. Drawing on our experience at Klarna—where we serve tens of millions of users—I’ll show you the essential architecture, tooling, and strategies needed to reliably deliver updates outside the native release cycle. If you are considering implementing OTA in your project—even with ready-made solutions like CodePush or Expo over-the-air updates—you’ll benefit from this talk by gaining a deeper understanding of the hidden complexities behind such tools.

Zack is a Module Federation Core team member, ByteDance innovator, Rspack contributor and Tauri board member. With deep architecture and development experience with enterprises of global scale he brings the experience of real world enterprise experience to the stage. As a startup founder he also brings the reality of scaling from 0 to 1.

When it comes to releasing new versions of your app its pain at almost every stage. This pain becomes worse as our teams grow with constant merge battles, releases, and rollbacks. What if there was a better way?

With the release of Re.Pack 5 there is support now in React Native for Module Federation.

With millions of downloads a week the de facto standard for distributed web development is now available for mobile.In this talk we will explore:
1) How to decompose our mobile applications into multiple modules
2) Why we would want to give our teams independence and different release velocities
3) How to version and release these versions independently in practice
4) A comparison of tools on the market to manage over the air updates
5) Strategies on how to test in production while maintaining instant roll backs

React Native library that provides a framework that re-enables RN's existing Systrace JS API from the native code (Nitro Modules), providing a plugin system that allows plugging in an arbitrary native tracing backend into it.

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React Native library that provides a framework that re-enables RN's existing Systrace JS API from the native code (Nitro Modules), providing a plugin system that allows plugging in an arbitrary native tracing backend into it.

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Aurora Scharff is a software developer and Microsoft MVP from Norway with a degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems. She began her career at a financial technology startup and now serves as a consultant at Crayon Consulting, while also contributing as React Certification Content Owner at http://certificates.dev. She focuses on web development with extensive experience in React and Next.js, including active use of React Server Components.

Aurora shares her knowledge through workshops, technical blog posts, social media, demo applications, and supporting fellow developers. She regularly presents internationally at recognized conferences, contributing to the global developer community through both her speaking engagements and educational content creation.

Legend List is heavily optimized to be as fast as possible on both mobile and web. The core optimizations, like signals and minimizing renders, are shared between both platforms. But there's also some interesting differences in how we measure rendered elements and keep elements in order on web.This talk walks through the most effective optimizations I found for both React Native and React DOM, the key differences in the implementations between mobile and web, and general tips and tricks for optimizing your apps the most effectively.

Richard Hipp is the creator and lead developer for SQLite, the most widely deployed database engine, and perhaps the most widely deployed software of any type, in the world today. He also works on other open-source projects such as Fossil and Pikchr

The world is entralled with LLM AIs like ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, and the like. And rightfully so, since those are amazing systems. But there are other kinds of AIs that do not speak a human language, and so do not attract as much attention, yet are no less powerful. Chess players might be familiar with Stockfish, for example.The Structure Query Language (SQL) is implemented by many database management systems. Though widely used, few programmers appreciate that most SQL database engines implement a kind of AI known as "automatic programming". These systems write larges amounts of code for you, automatically, based on just a statement of the problem to be solved. Understanding how these SQL AIs work, and how they can be leveraged, can dramatically increase your programming productivity, and help prevent you from being replaced by an LLM.

Head of Mobile at Vercel. Previously co-founder of BeatGig, a marketplace for booking live music. Prior to BeatGig, Fernando's startup was part of Y Combinator's W19 batch. While in college at UPenn, he founded PATOS Shoes – a sneaker brand that sold in over 15 countries, and was featured in J. Crew, Forbes, Buzzfeed, NBC, and more. Rojo is the maintainer of many open source React libraries, including Solito, Moti, Dripsy, Zeego, and Burnt.

Composition is React's most powerful tool, yet it's widely misunderstood. In this talk, we'll look at a single set of patterns that let your codebase scale from one component to thousands, making it fun for humans and AI to work in. Say goodbye to props like shouldRenderButton and fall in love with React again.+ stay tuned for a special AI prompt at the end of the talk.

Xuan is a software architect on the Lynx family of technologies, where he can dream of making interfaces better for more users, more developers, and more machines. Before joining ByteDance, he worked on React Core ("React Forget"), React Native, Hermes and Reason during his time at Meta.

With a passion for creating seamless cross-platform experiences, my journey in tech started not with programming, but as a consultant in the tech industry. The desire to build and innovate led to a shift in focus towards software development, particularly mobile app development, where the thrill of solving complex problems and crafting user-friendly applications became a calling. Co-founding Frontend Queens was a natural extension of this journey, inspired by a commitment to inclusivity in tech. This community was born from the belief that everyone, especially women, should have the opportunity to thrive in technology. By fostering a supportive environment, we aim to empower women to break barriers and pursue fulfilling careers in this ever-evolving field.

Is your app built on guesswork, or do you have data to back up your decisions? In this talk, we'll dive into A/B testing in React Native and how we at ClipMyHorse.TV use experimentation to optimise our app. Learn how to design and implement meaningful tests, analyse results, and shift from intuition-based development to data-driven decision-making.

The Node API is an API for building native add ons for Node.JS. It is JS Engine agnostic, and ABI stable, which makes it very versatile and what allows alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun to target Node compatibility. In React Native Windows, we have maintained a fork of Hermes that reimplements JSI on top of the Node API. We have been working with the community to bring this integration to the rest of React Native. Come learn more about what this unlocks, and how much farther you can take your app with the full power of both Hermes and Node-API together!

II am an engineering manager at Microsoft and my team works on React Native for desktop and the integration of React Native into Microsoft Office. We also contribute to upstream React Native, help drive open-source releases and participate in several React Native related working groups. am an engineering manager at Microsoft and my team works on React Native for desktop and the integration of React Native into Microsoft Office. We also contribute to upstream React Native, help drive open-source releases and participate in several React Native related working groups.

The Node API is an API for building native add ons for Node.JS. It is JS Engine agnostic, and ABI stable, which makes it very versatile and what allows alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun to target Node compatibility. In React Native Windows, we have maintained a fork of Hermes that reimplements JSI on top of the Node API. We have been working with the community to bring this integration to the rest of React Native. Come learn more about what this unlocks, and how much farther you can take your app with the full power of both Hermes and Node-API together!

Kræn is a senior software engineer at MongoDB contributing primarily to Realm JS and its related packages and holds a M.Sc.Eng. from the Technical University of Denmark. He's main contributions has been to the Realm JS SDK, Realm Studio (data browsing Electron / React app) and the React frontend for the (now deprecated) Realm Cloud.Kræn lives 30 minutes west of Copenhagen, with his wife and their two 4 year old twin girls. They recently added yet another newborn girl to their pack.

We have a need for faster build times, less failures of 3rd party libraries at build time and thoroughly tested native modules. Node-API enables all of the above, through an ABI-safe and -stable boundary and existing support in Node.js and many other runtimes. In this talk, I want to share the latest progress on bringing Node-API to React Native.With a Node-API native modules for React Native, you can get:1) Super fast calls between the JavaScript and native code written in C++, Rust or other languages with support for foreign function interfaces (FFI).2) Libraries published via prebuilds (compiled ahead-of-time) as Node-API provides an ABI stable C-API.3) Unit tests exercising the same native code on Node.js and React Native.I’ll be sharing the story of how this came about, our progress on landing Node-API support in Hermes as well as the `react-native-node-api-modules` package, enabling library authors to lazy-load prebuilt dynamic libraries targeting the Node-API.I can’t wait to see what we end up building with this!

Dr. Küçük is a computer scientist who spent 10 years at Oxford University in various research positions focusing on systems security. He is the author of the “Confidential Remote Computing” paradigm and previously received grants from Intel Corporation for his TEE-related work. Previously, he was a research engineer at ETH Zürich, delivering C++-based industrial software products in the areas of Industry 4.0, simulation, and digital twin technologies. Alongside his teaching activities at Oxford, he is currently exploring independent opportunities.

Although C++ offers a wide range of computational libraries with various capabilities and enables high-performance computing, there are long-standing challenges in integrating them into a React Native project. To address these challenges, we developed a practical set of tools and a sustainable methodology for automating an all-in-one solution for using C++ libraries in cross-platform JavaScript applications.

Manually compiling, porting, and bridging a library is not only difficult but also unscalable in enterprise settings. For large corporations and commercial products, using C++ in React Native should not introduce additional complexity or make projects fragile. Instead, the React Native community needs a stable, permanent, long-term solution that works in a scalable manner while offering reliability.

With cpp.js, developers can include many pre-ported C++ libraries into React Native or WebAssembly projects by simply including the relevant header files. While the Codegen project already supports C++ bridging in React Native, it is limited to function calls and primitive types. In contrast, we offer Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) support and modern C++ features (C++11 & C++14), enabling integration with a broad range of widely-used C++ libraries. For example, we have successfully integrated GIS libraries such as GDAL into React Native, demonstrating cpp.js’s practical effectiveness. With little to no effort, cpp.js can support the long-term maintenance of various C++ libraries, thanks to our automation processes. This minimises the traditionally difficult engineering work of cross-compiling, porting, and bridging libraries to JSI.

Following the introduction to our toolset, architectural decisions and development journey, we will show;

(1) how to quickly write and execute native C++ code within a JavaScript environment,

(2) utilising and importing ready-to-use native C++ libraries from our cpp.js repository. Further, for developers in more sophisticated cases,

(3) we will show how to port a C++ library you need using our toolset, even if the C++ library has external dependencies. This showcases modularity, independence in maintenance, the scalability characteristics of our project, further giving developers more control.

We warmly welcome collaboration and feedback from the React Native community. Although this talk focuses on React Native, cpp.js is a cross-platform solution that also supports WebAssembly (web, Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, etc.), alongside mobile platforms. We will cover these broader aspects in our upcoming talks.