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cedric @cedric.dev · 19/05/2025

@joshuakgoldberg.com sorry for the no-reply on the repo. Is there anything you need changed in the repo?

cedric @cedric.dev · 19/05/2025

I think I still have access to it, maybe you do too? Happy to do some maintenance if that’s required. But, for bigger things, it prob need to wait for after some conferences 🙈

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cedric @cedric.dev · 19/05/2025

Right now, I don’t have a lot of bandwidth. But what needs to be done on this repository?

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cedric @cedric.dev · 14/01/2025

This is what Google does all the time. Even in their Flutter conferences they promote apps from big companies by just saying their name, not that only 1 division of that big corp in 1 single country uses Flutter. All while most other countries of the same corp use something else.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 14/01/2025

Oh man, so much to come still! We can work on so many other parts of the universal story now.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 08/01/2025

For normal offline errors, we automatically switch to offline mode with a warning that it did. See: github.com/expo/expo/bl...

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cedric @cedric.dev · 08/01/2025

As the `—offline` flag mentions, we ping the API to get a list of known dependencies that we use to check if you might be running incompatible `expo-*` packages for SDK 50. We also catch known offline related issues, unfortunately the EAI_AGAIN is a DNS error but doesn’t indicate you are offline.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 03/01/2025

Syntax trees shouldn’t have to be compiled or evaluated. It’s usually a token based lexer that only represents the written code through an accessible interface. Hence it’s the only way to mutate code in a stable manner.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 02/01/2025

Preferably all mods that are required for a platform have a proper way to do a mod using some sort of AST/CST. That’s the only way to make things stable

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cedric @cedric.dev · 02/01/2025

The noop disables dangerous mods for the platform. Otherwise it would error out. Dangerous mods were a “if it’s not implemented, there is still _a_ way to do something” but it’s not recommended and it could be unstable. That’s why I just disabled it.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 10/12/2024

Fun fact, both React Native Test App (RNTA) - github.com/microsoft/re... - and react-native-tvos (github.com/react-native...) are using config plugins! Any other out-of-tree platform can adopt it as well.

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react-native-test-app/plugins at trunk · microsoft/react-native-test-app

react-native-test-app provides an app for all supported platforms as a package - microsoft/react-native-test-app

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cedric @cedric.dev · 10/12/2024

You know it's a banger when my first words are "sorry, not sorry". Listen in to an in-depth conversation about React Native debugging from both Alex hunt and me! We have come a long way but have much more to come.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 05/12/2024

Its better to go for a plugin approach. Even though we don't have a plugin system for Metro configs. Using specialized functions to modify configs lowers the risk a little bit, and adds code-as-documentation to users configs. E.g module.export = withNativeWind(config, { .. }); Easy to pull out too

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cedric @cedric.dev · 05/12/2024

I disagree with the "merging configs", I don't think thats a good idea in any way. Merging configs can override so many things without users realizing. That's why we discourage using `import { mergeConfig } from 'metro-config'`.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 05/12/2024

It’s the same for Metro config. You often accidentally overwrite some configuration that breaks something in unexpected ways

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cedric @cedric.dev · 06/11/2024

It’s not about the size, it’s what you can do with 5.5” screenshots

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cedric @cedric.dev · 02/11/2024

Can’t wait until we lower the dependency count even more ❤️

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cedric @cedric.dev · 02/11/2024

Having access to the full ecosystem of React (and -Native) libraries truly unlocks possibilities. Even when “just” using a web view.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 02/11/2024

I’m still amazed how powerful DOM components are. I mean, try implementing an infinite drawing canvas on web, iOS, and Android in under 5 minutes. With DOM components you actually can.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 31/10/2024

We’ve reached a critical level on Twitter’s downward spiral. Probably fuelled by the presidential election. But, I’m all here for it.

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cedric @cedric.dev · 28/10/2024

It took a while, but I’m glad R act Native DevTools is in a great state now

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cedric @cedric.dev · 24/04/2023

hello literally everyone

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