React Native: Building Better Developer Tools and Fixing the Fundamentals
Today we're diving into 27 commits focused on strengthening React Native's foundation. The team made major strides in C++ API tooling with Objective-C parsing support, introduced experimental View Transition APIs, and fixed critical issues affecting JSC users and Android text input. Plus, coverage tooling improvements and memory safety fixes show the platform's commitment to quality.
Duration: PT4M11S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-03-04T11:22:15Z
- Audio duration: PT4M11S
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Hey there, React Native developers! Welcome back to another episode of the React Native podcast. I'm your host, and I'm genuinely excited to share what's been happening in the codebase today, March 4th, 2026.
You know those days when you peek under the hood of your favorite framework and discover a whole bunch of thoughtful improvements happening behind the scenes? Well, today is absolutely one of those days. We've got 27 commits that tell a really compelling story about where React Native is heading.
Let's start with the big picture. While we didn't see any merged pull requests today, the engineering team has been incredibly busy laying groundwork for some exciting features and fixing some real pain points that developers have been experiencing.
The star of today's show is definitely Dawid Małecki, who's been on an absolute tear improving React Native's C++ API snapshot parser. Think of this as the tooling that helps the team understand and document how all the native code fits together. Dawid added support for parsing Objective-C categories, interfaces,…
But let's talk about something that might directly impact your apps. Telechi Nicolae came through with a fantastic fix for…
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