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This week brings some exciting React Native updates! The creator of Tamagui has built a new React cross-platform framework called One. Thatβs crazy! Letβs dive into the two big news items:
- New React Native Framework: One π
- Nitro Module Framework Launched π₯
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New React Native Framework: One π
So, at ViteConf this week, Nate Wienert (creator of Tamagui) introduced the new React cross-platform framework One. One is a Vite plugin (a fast tool for building web apps) and a complete solution for cross-platform development with React and React Native. Using One, you can deploy your React Native or Web app with a single setup. One allows you to target both Native and the web with one codebase (you can import <Text/>
, <View/>
, etc., from react-native
, which also works on the web). It replaces both Metro (JS bundler) and a separate Web framework with a single framework, using shared file-system routing (every file you create under the /app
directory becomes a route). It uses the popular react-navigation to navigate on native apps (iOS & Android).
True Benefits of One π
The two main features of the One framework compared to other frameworks are:
- One allows Vite to serve React Native and Web at the same time with smooth file system routing, all while hot reloading (instant updates) on both Native and Web.
- One prioritizes local-first development (works offline) with Zero (manages app data from user's input and external sources), allowing code sharing across Web and Native apps without any downsides (no performance issues).
Additionally, Vite is excellent for React Native with broad file-type support (handles many file formats), modern syntax, ESM (modern JavaScript modules), powerful tree shaking (removes unused code) and code-splitting, faster compilation, and top-notch documentation, plugins, and community support. All these features are now automatically supported in One.
Nitro Module Framework Launched π₯
βMarc from @margelo_io has released a mind-blowing Framework Nitro to build Nitro Modules (next-gen Native Modules) for React Native developers. The framework helps you to create very fast Native Modules (Ex: Camera Module) that are type-safe (safe from type errors at runtime) and statically compiled (optimized for performance before they run), all while allowing JS to interact with those Native Modules easily. This week, Marc added a new home page for the documentation.
Nitro Module Performance π
βNitro is built on top of JSI (JavaScript Interface, written in C++) which makes the communication layer between JavaScript and native code (e.g., Swift, Kotlin) very lightweight and efficient. Many features, like type-checking, are compile-time only and built with C++ which introduces zero runtime overhead. Unlike Turbo Modules (created by Meta) or Expo Modules (created by Expo) for building native modules, Nitro-Modules do not use Objective-C at all. Nitro uses the new Swift <> C++ interop, which has close to zero overhead. Additionally, instead of requiring Java, Nitrobridges to Kotlin directly.
A benchmark showed that Nitro-Modules are 59x faster than Expo Modules and 15x faster than Turbo Modules. Damn, Nitro-Modules are incredibly fast! π±
Thatβs it π
React Native is moving quickly. For example, the new framework βOneβ has come out to compete with βExpoβ. Additionally, exciting developments are happening, such as the new Nitro Module being better than both the Expo Module and Turbo Module. Day by day, React Native is becoming the top cross-platform framework.
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π₯ Press worthy
1οΈβ£ Introducing Zeego 2.0: Dropdown & context menus that work everywhere (Release).
2οΈβ£ From React Native 0.77, the template will switch from Objective-C to Swift.
3οΈβ£ Announcing react-native-godot: Godot Game Engine now in React Native.
4οΈβ£ Oskar is building new βNative Bottom Tabsβ to replace the βReact Native JS Bottom Tabsβ.
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The newsletter was written by Anis and edited by Vadim Savin.
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