22 - A year in Review for React Native

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Four releases in 2022 deliver concrete changes: 0.68 opt-in new architecture and a CLI path for legacy components so non-migrated libraries still run; React 18 alignment in 0.69; bundled then Hermes as default (startup on Android 51–63% faster, iOS binary +≈4MB); Kotlin docs and a TypeScript template in 0.71; layout improvements like flexbox gap; Metro experiments for package exports/pnpm; build and artifact work that cuts Android new-architecture clean builds to a 32 second Android build and reduces disk footprint to ~1GB.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:42New architecture status
3. 2:30React Native 0.68 release
4. 3:35React Native 0.69 release
5. 5:01Hermes as default engine
6. 6:46Modern language support
7. 7:51React Native 0.71 updates
8. 11:50Build speed improvements
9. 13:13Disk space optimization
10. 14:19Template cleanup
11. 16:05Dependency updates
12. 17:28Community contributions
13. 19:13React Native 0.72 sneak peek
14. 21:19Metro improvements
15. 22:03New architecture interop
16. 24:12Feedback and future

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