React Native without Cocoapods

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Provides a working SPM-based path that replaces CocoaPods for React Native iOS, covering core packaging, Hermes, Codegen and autolinking and allowing incremental opt-in migration alongside Podspecs. CI already builds and uploads precompiled SPM-built frameworks to Maven Central; local tooling offers npx react-native-spm to scaffold package.swift, generate Xcode projects, run CodeGen, auto-sync native modules and cache binaries. Measured wins include almost 40% faster builds for one Expo app and lower maintenance by removing the Ruby/CocoaPods layer.

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1. 0:00Introduction to React Native
2. 1:35The problem with CocoaPods
3. 3:17Deprecation of CocoaPods
4. 4:17Faster builds via SPM
5. 5:16Performance benchmarks
6. 6:16Migration roadmap
7. 8:08The new SPM workflow
8. 10:12Live demo: project setup
9. 11:30Xcode project integration
10. 12:26Building with Swift PM
11. 13:10Adding native modules
12. 15:41Summary of SPM capabilities
13. 17:16Call to action
14. 18:37Closing thoughts

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