Keynote: community & workflows

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React Native hits 1.4M weekly npm downloads and Expo reaches ~500k weekly downloads while config plugins approach React Native levels; Hermes becomes dominant with 68% of builds using Hermes. Expo ships Expo Router, Expo Modules 1.0 and Expo Image; Expo’s EAS + prebuild + config plugins power continuous native generation (CNG). Real results: a single developer ships Blue Sky in six months and Brex rewrites its app in six weeks with 14 people using EAS, updates and over-the-air fixes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:24React Native ecosystem
3. 2:35New architectural features
4. 6:03Expo router and modules
5. 7:07Community and contributions
6. 9:16Industry trends
7. 12:44App case studies
8. 18:22Expo and continuous generation

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