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This one has been in the making for a while! React is going universal -- it runs on the web, on mobile, even on your Meta VR goggles. But what does that really mean and how does it benefit developers?

🧵Here's a brief overview of some of the most exciting developments in Universal React and why I think they're so important

This one has been in the making for a while! React is going universal -- it runs on the web, on mobile, even on your Meta VR goggles. But what does that really mean and how does it benefit developers?

🧵Here's a brief overview of some of the most exciting developments in Universal React and why I think they're so important

https://dylansteck.com/blog/universal-react

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Expo as a framework and EAS as a product are two backbones that myself and many other mobile developers rely on, with some highlights being:
- Expo Router which is a file-based router & makes it easy to organize your static and dynamic routes (pumped for RSC support in Expo 52!)
- Expo's suite of built in plugins to access local libraries
- Expo Go, a mobile app for testing your local and deployed development apps(with hot reloading)
- EAS, a development platform for managing your builds and updates

What really excites me about what Expo and the team have been doing(especially on the Router side with Evan Bacon's work) is being able to use all of their tools to build truly universal and native apps without as many compromises across the entire stack

Expo as a framework and EAS as a product are two backbones that myself and many other mobile developers rely on, with some highlights being:
- Expo Router which is a file-based router & makes it easy to organize your static and dynamic routes (pumped for RSC support in Expo 52!)
- Expo's suite of built in plugins to access local libraries
- Expo Go, a mobile app for testing your local and deployed development apps(with hot reloading)
- EAS, a development platform for managing your builds and updates

What really excites me about what Expo and the team have been doing(especially on the Router side with Evan Bacon's work) is being able to use all of their tools to build truly universal and native apps without as many compromises across the entire stack

https://x.com/Baconbrix

React

React 19 and Server Components

Back in April, the /react team announced the React 19 RC with a bunch of new changes, mainly around Server Components and Server Actions. To summarize the new changes, here's a super quick explanation of RSCs and Server Actions:

RSCs
Server components let you fetch data and return React on the server. Many frameworks like Next.js are even making server components the default. Some main benefits include initial page loads, having dynamic content come from LLMs, and SEO benefits

Server Actions
Server Actions run on the server, keeping sensitive tasks like DB queries off the client. This reduces overhead and simplifies client-server interaction (eg. handling a complex form submission without exposing API calls)

Then finally there's a project and set of developers that I'm also super excited about, the Tamagui team

Tamagui is a framework for building powerful cross-platform design systems & apps. The team also implemented Tamagui while at @uniswap, a testament to what it can power

And a few weeks ago, its creator Nate Wienert unveiled an exciting new project they'd been working on: One(onestack.dev), a universal React framework with an exciting approach of building a cross-platform framework directly as a single-app Vite plugin

And a few weeks ago, its creator Nate Wienert unveiled an exciting new project they'd been working on: One(onestack.dev), a universal React framework with an exciting approach of building a cross-platform framework directly as a single-app Vite plugin

https://x.com/natebirdman/status/1841929997952679942

The framework has a lot of features that caught my eye, such as:
- setting routing globally and per-page to be either a SPA, SSG, SSR, or an API route
- typed file-system routing
- built-in Tamagui support
- upcoming support for Zero, a new local-first sync solution for Postgres

Part of the reason I wanted to bring it up is that this framework excited me so much that I'm using it to build @cortex, a community-focused Farcaster client(pivoted a bit after researching Notion-style blocks, will be sharing even more soon!)

I know it's still in beta but I've really enjoyed using it!

Sooo... what does all of this mean for developers? 

In my eyes, only good things! React continues to be one of the best ways to teach new programmers how to code and build apps, while also empowering experienced engineers to create apps that run anywhere

With the advancements we've seen, from React Native and Expo to cutting-edge frameworks like One and Tamagui, developers now have access to tools that bridge platforms and unify the development process in ways that were unimaginable a few years ago.

Universal React empowers developers to build top-notch user experiences without having to worry as much about platform-specific details. These tools are not only making development faster and more efficient but also setting the stage for an era of truly universal app development

Make sure to check out the full "Universal React" post up on my blog! https://dylansteck.com/blog/universal-react

Also on @paragraph: https://paragraph.xyz/@dylsteck.eth/universal-react

First launched in 2015, React Native became a great tool for using React primitives to build powerful mobile apps. But little did the RN creators know how much it would:
- make it easy for new and advanced developers to build mobile
- open the doors for *truly* universal apps

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https://x.com/Dylan_Steck/status/1848588113905397849

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this is great blog! thanks for sharing.

I may try one framework in my next project