r/reactnative

Hey guys,

Let me share my latest OSS RN library. I'm a big fan of RN and also a heavy Rust user. I try to bring the two ecosystems closer to each other in my projects.

react-native-scc is a low-level KV storage for React Native, built on SCC and Nitro-Modules.

GitHub: https://github.com/rust-dd/react-native-scc

Take a look or try it, and give any feedback.
Happy coding. <3

I've been building more React Native apps lately, and I'm curious what everyone is using for analytics these days.

I'm mainly looking for things like:

- screen views
- button clicks / custom event
- funnels
- retention
- crashes (if you use the same tool)

I've used a few different solutions over the years, but I'm wondering what people actually stick with in production.

Do you use something like PostHog, Mixpanel or something else?

I'd also love to know:
- what made you choose it?
- anything you wish you'd known before integrating it?
- any tools you'd avoid?

Curious to hear what's become the go-to setup for rn apps these days.

Hi all,

Does anybody have an MMP they would recommend for tracking in-app subscriptions / purchases from affiliate links? I saw that branch.io removed their free tier and I can’t sign up to AppsFlyer for some reason. Anything else?

Thanks!

I’ve been working with React Native for 6+ years and recently had to optimize:
Slow app startup times
Excessive re-renders
Large FlatList performance issues
React Query caching problems
Navigation performance
Curious what performance issues other teams are seeing in production and what solutions worked best.
Happy to share what worked for me as well.

Hey I want 12 tester for 14 days for my app it’s completely ads free no signin required
I need email so I can add some of the guys to testing list

I’m currently facing an issue with my company's app where specific Android users encounter a loop when opening a particular screen. It doesn't happen on my physical Android device, the emulator, or iOS. What steps do you follow to identify these scenarios involving specific devices?

I have a React Native screen where parts of the UI need to update automatically when the current time crosses certain boundaries.

For example, before 12 PM it should show “Good morning”, between 12 PM and 6 PM it should show “Good afternoon”, and after 6 PM it should show “Good evening”.

I want this to update in real time while the app is already open. So if the user has the app open and is looking at the screen when the time changes from 11:59 AM to 12:00 PM, the UI should update to “Good afternoon” without needing to close or relaunch the app.

I wrote a small hook that updates the current time on minute boundaries, but I’m wondering if this is the right approach for React Native or if there’s a better pattern for handling this kind of time-based UI update.

Here’s what I have right now:

/**
 * Updated on each real minute boundary (hh:mm:00) — a chain
 * of self-correcting timeouts, not a poll. Overdue timers fire on app resume,
 * so returning from background refreshes immediately.
 *
 * Known limitation: Hermes caches the device timezone for the process lifetime,
 * so a timezone change (unlike a time change) applies only after relaunch.
 */

function useNow() {
    // The current time; re-rendered components read this. Initialized once on mount.
    const [now, setNow] = useState(() => new Date());

    useEffect(() => {
        // Holds the pending timer so we can cancel it on unmount.
        let id: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>;

        // Schedules a one-shot timer that fires exactly at the start of the next minute.
        const scheduleNextTick = () => {
            id = setTimeout(() => {
                // Update state so the UI reflects the new minute...
                setNow(new Date());
                // ...then queue the following minute's tick.
                scheduleNextTick();
            }, 60_000 - (Date.now() % 60_000)); // ms remaining until the next :00 second, keeps ticks aligned to the clock.
        };

        // Kick off the first tick.
        scheduleNextTick();

        // Cancel any in-flight timer when the component unmounts.
        return () => clearTimeout(id);
    }, []);

    return now;
}

I'm building a React Native (Expo) POS app for a busy food stall. Currently the app sends orders to my backend (Express → Firebase). I want an offline-first architecture where tapping "Place Order" instantly saves the request locally, then automatically syncs it to the backend when internet is available. Should I queue raw API requests (endpoint + payload) or store domain objects (orders) in SQLite? How would you design this for reliability, retries, and preventing duplicate orders if the network drops after the backend processes the request but before the client receives the response? Looking for production-grade architecture recommendations.

I check Play Console manually every morning for new reviews and it's getting old. Almost missed a 1-star about a critical bug for 4 days.

What's your workflow? Manual checks, some tool, or a custom script? And if you use a tool what do you pay for it?

Looking for a short-term React Native freelance team

I’m looking for an experienced React Native freelance team to help with code refactoring, bug fixing, and improving the overall quality of an existing app.

This is not a long-term project. Ideally, I’m looking for something that can be executed within 1–2 weeks by a team with strong coding proficiency and experience working on production React Native apps.

I’ve been coding for over 10 years and have been focused on shipping quickly, but I could use support from a strong team to help clean things up, improve stability, and move faster.

We are also hiring React Native engineers with 5+ years of experience, so this may be interesting for freelancers or engineers open to longer-term opportunities as well.

Please reach out if you or your team has strong React Native + expo experience and availability for a short-term engagement.

Hey everyone,

​I'm completely new to React Native. By profession, I'm a backend engineer, so my frontend skills are definitely on the weaker side.

​I’m currently building a marketplace app and need to display various service providers (think tailor listings, product information cards, contact sections, buttons with icons, etc.). Writing raw inline styles and complex StyleSheet objects from scratch is making my codebase look messy, and honestly, it’s slowing me down a lot.

​Are there any reliable external UI or component libraries you'd recommend that offer pre-built components like cards and buttons out of the box? I’d love something that feels clean, modern, and developer-friendly without requiring me to reinvent the wheel for standard layouts.

​Looking forward to hearing your recommendations and what has worked well for your projects!

​Cheers! 🥂

Hi all, working on a expo rn app and the requirement is to keep the app size absolute minimal. App has 4-5 screens. Doesn't use any native api like camera. Gps or ?mic. Would love to hear your size optimization techniques for prod app distributions.