Want 60fps Lists even on lower end devices and without seeing those dreaded blank cells?
Shopify has recently open-sourced FlashList, a new drop-in replacement for React Native's FlatList. In this talk, you'll learn more about how we built FlashList, why it's so fast, and how you can use it to make your lists lightning fast today.

An in-depth look at Static Hermes, the next iteration of React Native’s JavaScript engine. Learn how it impacts performance, what you can do with it today, and what’s coming next.

Le Chat is the app developed by Mistral AI, the pioneering French artificial intelligence company. Like ChatGPT or DeepSeek, Le Chat allows everyone, everywhere, to chat with Mistral’s models. Published a few months ago, the app is powered by React Native and Expo.

The talk will be a technical dive into one central building block of the app: text streaming. Allowing LLM’s answers to appear word by word on screen,  HTTP streaming is a classic method - yet a polyfill is still required for React Native's fetch. Why? How does it work exactly? What are the specific native considerations around it? And what else does it power within the React Native ecosystem?

With the React Native New Architecture becoming the new default there are still many questions about its purpose. Through the example of Reanimated's Layout Animations we will se how the architecture redesign benefits library maintainers, and how it affects end users.