Roshan Gautam

I'm trying to make the best mp3 player for macOS. It's 35MB, uses 2% CPU to play a song, low memory usage, every action is instant. So I'm using React Native macOS for the best performance. Releasing first version tomorrow. What would make this the best music app for you?

React Native Reanimated 4 is now stable and ready for production 🐎 Featuring CSS Animations & Transitions, multithreading with React Native Worklets and more.

12% faster iOS builds in React Native/Expo by precompiling dependencies. Next step will be to precompile React Native, and then all of Expo.

Apple today took a shot at React Native and other cross-platform frameworks. I have thoughts. First, the quote in question, from their keynote (around the 40 minute mark): "Some other frameworks promise the ability to write code once for Android and iOS. And that may sound good, but by the time you've written custom code to adapt each platform's conventions, connected to hardware with platform-specific APIs, implemented accessibility, and then filled in functionality gaps by adding additional logic and relying on a host of plugins, you've likely written a lot more code than you'd planned on. And you are still left with an app that could be slower, look out of place, and can't directly take advantage of features like Live Activities and widgets. Apple's native frameworks are uncompromisingly focused on helping you build the best apps."

React Native has supported error.cause since v0.69 in 2022, yet has never been able to log it to the console. It has only ever printed the top-level error. … That changes today! I extracted util.inspect() from Node.js for all JS runtimes to use. Comment if you want to try it!