Umair Ahmed
@umair170
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Noob @Dota2 Love React & React Native. Sr Mobile App engineer @HiveHomeUK 🇵🇰🇬🇧 npx umair_ahmed [email protected]
Leeds, England
Joined October 2008
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. - Linus Torvalds
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What a time for @rea
🆕 This PR from @nishanbende adds CSS grid support to react native 🙌 Can’t overstate how massive this is for all of us. Future generations will celebrate Nishan Bende Day 🐐 https://t.co/9Z4thxOUke
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Hey @reactnavigation Is there a way to debug Android header height in V6? 👀 For some reason the height is too big and there is no indication to why 😢 Couldn't find anything in the docs
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I’m very proud of @krzysztof_moch, I showed him React Native 3 years ago and now he’s rewriting major library in the ecosystem react-native-video from scratch with Nitro Modules 🐐👏
Together with one of our clients, we're releasing react-native-native v7 to nearly 1 million users 🤯
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To mitigate that issue, you can use those below commands ``` npm cache clean --force npx @react-native-community/cli --version ```
⚠️ Heads up, React Native devs: We've just disclosed CVE-2025-11953, a critical CVSS 9.8 RCE vulnerability in the React Native CLI. 🚩The risk: An unauthenticated network attacker can get #RCE on your machine via the running dev server. Full technical breakdown & mitigation
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Beautiful news for @reactnavigation users
👀 Navigation API will be available in all browsers soon 🎉 Completely redefines the APIs used to build client-side routers / SPAs 🫤 History API: popState, link click.preventDefault() ... ✅ Navigation API: clean, centralized way to intercept navigation events 👌
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Built with Bun! ❤️ Single-file executables are so powerful
Claude Code's native installer is now generally available. It's simpler, more stable, and doesn't require Node.js. We recommend this as the default installation method for all Claude Code users going forward.
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🚨🇫🇷 FRANCE AT WAR? France has Shot Down an Israeli Drone in Lebanon, and you need to know what Israel did in response. Here's my video covering it:
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You know that classic React Native tell? TouchableOpacity firing while you’re just trying to scroll. Pain. 1/4
Stop using TouchableOpacity in React Native. Your app deserves better tap interaction. 🧵 Here's how to fix your touchables with pressto:
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Announcing my new personal docs site, Birchdocs! 🍾 Here I'm sharing everything I've learned over 10 years as a software engineer. I plan to cover React Native, Expo, web dev, Node.js dev, native platforms, and more. And all advanced topics, not shallow stuff. Link below!
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Introducing proof of concept React Imgui! The name is a joke, but it is accurate enough. In the last few days I have been working on a prototype of React driving Dear ImGui using Static Hermes. The result is a fully native app written almost entirely in JavaScript, using
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Wake up babe, we have a new testing framework
🎉 Introducing React Native Harness - a lightweight framework for testing native modules directly on device or emulator. Write tests in a Jest-like syntax, run them in a real React Native runtime, and verify native behavior without mocks.
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If you're healthy enough to displace 2 million people. You're healthy enough to stand trial for corruption.
JUST IN: Netanyahu has been diagnosed with non-threatening bronchitis. His personal physician has advised him to rest, leading him to cancel his ongoing corruption trial testimony at the Tel Aviv Court.
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If looks could kill … This was from 1998. Has anything changed?
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Use the platform. - native events - abort signals - built-in css support - HTML over the wire - seamless support for web components That’s Remix UI.
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What makes React’s component model so special is the ability to compose SwiftUI, Skia, DOM, and UIKit views, across both the server and client. Of course, you need a framework to enable the different rendering targets and platforms. That’s where @Expo comes in.
For our new product, we built a chat in React Native that feels like iMessage Here's how we did it: ① Fabric Swift View ② UICollectionView ③ SwiftUI cells via UIHostingConfiguration React is responsible for the state - mutations, fetching, infinite loading - all via React
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Rule #1 for becoming an elite React Native dev. Learn Swift (iOS) or Kotlin (Android). The best RN engineers understand the native side too. #ReactNative #MobileDev #Swift #Kotlin #iOS #Android
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What we just announced at React Conf 1/ The New Architecture is now the ONLY supported Architecture for React Native. Starting with v0.82, you won't be able to opt-out from New Architecture anymore.
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Nice touch from @iamarunabh 🙌 There’s one animation on https://t.co/pV3p3MJwHU that uses this trick - a hex name preview on the color picker screen, running on the UI thread with zero re-renders. Animation 🔗 https://t.co/Rkb1LikCxm
React Native Trick ⚡️ You can show a SharedValue as text without extra re-rendering. Code + use case in the thread 🧵👇
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