u/Fresh-Wealth4531

Hey r/reactnative,

I've been working on nativecn-ui, a small collection of React Native components focused mostly on animations and interactions.

Right now it's got stuff like a liquid action tab bar, animated tab bar, range slider, OTP input, dynamic upload, plus a few more I'm still working on.

You can check it out here: nativecn-ui

Still building it out, so lmk what you think, or if there's some component/interaction you'd want to see added.

Made a quick video showing a few of them below.

https://reddit.com/link/1vrhmt8/video/3ej98p6qv2kh1/player

At some point I realized the slowest part of debugging React Native wasn't the API.

It was the constant switching.

Flipper to check the request.

Chrome DevTools to inspect the response.

Back to VS Code to fix the code.

Repeat.

None of it is hard. But it adds up over a full day of development.

So I experimented with a different approach monkey patching the global fetch and XMLHttpRequest inside the app, and streaming the network calls directly into VS Code via a local WebSocket server.

The result:

- Every network request shows up in a VS Code tab in real time

- Method, status, URL, response time all visible at a glance

- Click any request to see headers, payload, and response body

- Works with fetch and axios

- Only runs in dev mode — zero impact on production builds

No Flipper. No Chrome tab. No context switching.

Still early and rough around the edges, but the core flow works well enough that I've been using it daily.

https://reddit.com/link/1u3mm78/video/ce9spmo5is6h1/player

Is Apple notarization super slow for anyone else lately?

Submitted my Electron app DMG around 5pm and it’s still stuck on “In Progress” after 4+ hours. Last time was also around 3 hours.

What confuses me is people online keep saying notarization usually takes like 5–15 mins.

App is already signed properly with Developer ID cert and everything. Around 124MB DMG.

Main thing I’m trying to figure out:

• is this normal?
• any way to debug why it gets stuck so long?
• and is there realistically any alternative to notarization if distributing directly from your own website?

I don’t really want to use the App Store because it’s a menubar-only utility app and App Review keeps becoming a pain with the no-dock-icon behavior.

Current workflow feels broken:

• Freelancer delivers first → risk of non-payment
• Client pays first → risk of bad/incomplete work

Even with contracts, milestones, staging links etc… someone still has to trust first.

So I’ve been working on an idea where:

• Client locks payment before work starts
• Freelancer delivers to a protected review/staging environment
• Client can fully test the product
• Payment + source code access release at the same time
• If either side disappears, dispute flow starts

Basically trying to remove the “blind trust” part from freelance projects.

Would you actually use something like this on a real client project?

What would stop you from using a system like this on a real client project?

Built a VS Code extension for React Native to stop switching between VS Code, terminal, Xcode and Android Studio every time I want to run the app.

Current stuff:

• create RN CLI projects
• list all iOS simulators + Android emulators
• boot offline devices from sidebar
• run app on selected device
• auto arrange VS Code + simulator windows

Auto window arrangement currently works on macOS only.

https://reddit.com/link/1td61pw/video/8f47dxuc651h1/player