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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Building Better Apps with React Native

Marc Rousavy

Think JavaScript is too slow for high-performance mobile apps? Discover how React Native unlocks near C++ speeds and full type safety for rapid cross-platform development.

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#1 about 3 min

Architecture and performance optimizations in React Native

How a native layout engine, asynchronous threads, and pre-compiled hermes bytecode enable JavaScript to achieve near-native execution speed.

#2 about 4 min

Accelerating development with fast refresh and updates

How iterative workflows utilize immediate visual rendering and over-the-air updates to bypass lengthy app store review cycles.

#3 about 1 min

Constructing basic UI components using React hooks

Implementing simple interactive user interfaces with standard functional components and robust state management hooks.

#4 about 4 min

Controlling hardware cameras and analyzing visual frames

How precise lens control and real-time frame processors power dynamic on-device machine learning features.

#5 about 5 min

Composing high-performance graphical filters over live feeds

Applying persistent localized video blurring by merging custom graphics rendering paths with swift face contour detection models.

#6 about 7 min

Generating type-safe custom native modules via Nitro

Translating strict TypeScript specifications into platform-specific implementations through automated native bindings and customized interface classes.

#7 about 2 min

Bootstrapping mobile applications bypassing traditional code editors

Generating and compiling instant functional application prototypes on physical devices via text prompts without setting up local development environments.

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2:25 min

Origins and architectural capabilities of the React Native framework

Edoardo Dusi · LIVE

4:52 min

Transitioning to React Native from web development

Milica Aleksic Milica Aleksic · LIVE

6:21 min

Defining native applications and the history of React

Dmitry Vinnik · LIVE

2:09 min

Core concepts and architecture of the NativeScript framework

Rowdy Rabouw Rowdy Rabouw · LIVE

3:38 min

Navigating continuous delivery for React Native mobile applications

Edoardo Dusi · LIVE

4:30 min

Tracking open source community trends in JavaScript native frameworks

Dan Cranney Dan Cranney +2 · LIVE

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