React Native: VirtualCollection Goes Public
React Native takes a big step forward with VirtualCollection components moving from internal Meta code to the public API. The team also improved scroll view handling with better bottom inset support and cleaned up some technical debt around mutation observers and testing infrastructure.
Duration: PT3M45S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from React Native.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: React Native
- Published: 2026-03-31T10:00:40Z
- Audio duration: PT3M45S
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, React Native developers! Welcome back to another episode of the React Native podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have some exciting changes to talk about today, March 31st, 2026.
You know that feeling when you've been working on something internally for ages, and you finally get to share it with the world? Well, that's exactly what's happening with React Native today, and I am genuinely excited to dive into this with you.
So let's jump right into the big story of the day. Calix Tang just dropped a massive commit that's going to make a lot of developers very happy. The VirtualCollection components - we're talking VirtualRow, VirtualColumn, VirtualCollectionView, and all their supporting cast - have officially moved from Meta's…
Now, if you're thinking "wait, what are VirtualCollection components?" - these are part of what's called the Fling system, and they're essentially high-performance components for rendering large lists and collections. Think of them as the next evolution of what you might know from FlatList, but with some serious…
What makes this so exciting is the scope of this change. Calix moved 10 core files, updated 40 consumer files, and even converted the…
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