Animations Get Smoother and Debugging Gets Better
Today's React Native updates focus on performance and developer experience improvements. The team enabled the new animation backend by default, added multi-session support for Chrome DevTools debugging, optimized memory usage in touch handling, and expanded Node.js SQLite support for Flow users.
Duration: PT3M50S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-01-24T11:08:25Z
- Audio duration: PT3M50S
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, React Native developers! Welcome back to another episode. I'm so excited to chat with you today because we've got some really thoughtful improvements that are going to make your development experience smoother and your apps more performant.
Let's dive right into what the React Native team has been cooking up. Today we're seeing four solid commits that each tackle different aspects of the framework, and honestly, they tell a beautiful story about how mature tooling evolves.
First up, and probably the most exciting change for your users, Zeya Peng just flipped the switch on something big. The new animation backend is now enabled by default! You know how animations are one of those things that can make or break the feel of an app? Well, this change removes a whole bunch of conditional…
Next, Moti Zilberman dropped something that's going to make debugging so much better. They've added multi-session support to the Chrome DevTools connection. Now, this might sound super technical, but here's why it matters: you can now have multiple debugging sessions connected to the same React Native app…
Fabrizio Cucci made one of those performance improvements that I absolutely love - the…
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