Reanimated 4.2.0 is here, and it brings gifts! 🔥 🎁 Long-awaited Shared Element Transitions 🎉 Not production-ready yet, so they’re behind a feature flag. Please, test it out and give us feedback! 🎁 Experimental performance fixes, inspired by real apps. 🎁 Other improvements

𝙰𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍.𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝 has been achieved internally in Reanimated 📈

We’ve just published expo-quest-core, which makes it easier to create Expo apps for Meta Quest. Check out the blog post for details! 👇 https://t.co/nXUfQ48wTm

We just made sure that no native specific code is loaded for `react-native-worklets` in web environments. Static size is over 10x smaller. Reanimated is next.

Cooking up something exciting 👨🏻‍🍳 WebGPU & animations running on the UI thread = a buttery smooth experience 🤯 Huge thanks to @wcandillon for the amazing react-native-wgpu and @piaskowyk for being an absolute legend! Stay tuned 👀

One of the hardest part of implementing Shared Element Transitions in Reanimated is making sure they don't break Layout Animations... But we are getting there! We aim to have it released behind a feature flag in 4.2.0 🧪

🚀 Reanimated 4 is out! I had the pleasure of implementing CSS Animations and Transitions — one of the major new features in this release. Grateful to the whole team for the amazing collaboration 🙌

We did it! You can finally use third-party libraries in worklets - with `react-native-worklets`. Jump in the thread to learn more 👇

I had planned about a day to get a decent drag and drop list working for reordering users' draft queues. I saw react-native-sortables on Reddit and decided to give it a try— had it working flawlessly in like 45 minutes. Absolute joy to use. Awesome lib, thanks @MatiPl01 !

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Demo app and source code: https://t.co/HJME4Moqc4

Added a new Apple-style icon-sorting example to the react-native-sortables demo app. Looks cool and takes only a few lines of code to implement. Links to the Expo demo app and source code available in comments 🧵⬇️

Demo source code:

A few months ago I released react-native-sortables drag-and-drop sorting library - yesterday it hit 600 ⭐ on GitHub! 🎉 Task-planner demo in the attached video shows zero-render style updates and smooth resizing when dragging between sections. Source code link in thread 🧵

THIS is what every RN dev, that deals with React Navigation or Expo Router needs to hear! 🤯 @kafara_kacper talks about react-native-screens in a nutshell on @swmansion RNCK: why do we need it and how it works 💙 Soon on YouTube!

Reanimated 4.0.0-beta.4 is out! 🔥 What’s new? ➡️ Support for React Native 0.78, 0.79, and 0.80 – finally! 🥳 ➡️ CSS animation fixes (like animationFillMode when used with non-default animationDirection values) ➡️ General stability improvements & issue fixes Check it out 👇🏻

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Qwen 3 family is shipping with the upcoming 0.4.0 version of React Native ExecuTorch. 🎉 The 1.7B variant reaches 30 tokens per second on iPhone 16 Pro!

Shared Element Transitions in React Native Reanimated on the New Architecture 🪄💫

More details about the project: https://t.co/YNnR397n0h