React Native 0.79 is now available! This release includes several performance improvements. Metro is now >3x faster to cold start! Android apps will also be faster thanks to changes to JS bundle compression. reactnative.dev/blog/2025/04/0…

Faster Metro startup Metro is >3x faster to cold start, with bigger speedups on larger projects - great news for monorepos and CI builds. This was achieved by deferring source hashing to only read files actually bundled, greatly reducing IO with negligible impact on build speed.

@reactnative metrooooooo 🗣️

@reactnative @mrousavy did make this happen?

@reactnative @TwosBaller 🥳

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@reactnative Cool👍

@reactnative Leggo!

@reactnative I ❤️ @reactnative, made my life as dev so much easier.. I really appreciate it

@reactnative Amazing indeed

@reactnative Great news!

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@reactnative @_emanuel_alves

@reactnative wen 10x?

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@reactnative Awesome, but what do we mean by deferring source hashing?

@reactnative Why am I in such a good mood today? Ah right, the new react native version

@reactnative Great !

@reactnative That's awesome news! Love to see the improvements in performance. Can't wait to try it out on my projects!

@reactnative That's awesome news! Can't wait to see how much smoother everything runs with these updates. Great work, team!

@reactnative вы гандоны, добавьте 100%-ую поддержку css, я вас в рот бела черти, а то скоро все на lynx js или на flutter перейдем наверное