Chain React 2026
2026-07-29..2026-07-31
Portland, United States
[Chain React 2017, Chain React 2018, Chain React 2023, Chain React 2024, Chain React 2026]
who it's for
React Native developers, expo developers, mobile engineers, app performance engineers, qa engineers, accessibility engineers, engineering managers
topics
Expo brownfield scaling; on-device vector features; AI-assisted React Native development; automated visual regression testing; accessibility testing in apps; SQLite as state manager; install-time supply chain defenses; iOS App Intents integration; zero-latency app startup; haptics integration in React Native; remote hot reload with Metro; native C++ React Native animation engine
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The U.S. React Native Conference | 02m | |
Skip it unless the talk contains real specifics: a concrete release date and migration plan, measurable benchmarks and repros that match claims, a working demo… | ||
| Welcome | Ken LaFrance, Gant Laborde | 16m |
Conference opens with a welcome that names the co-producers Infinite Red, Expo, React Foundation, explains on-site logistics (bathrooms, captioning code, Wi‑Fi… | ||
| The future of mobile development with Expo | Charlie Cheever | 24m |
Expo roadmap claims AI now generates React Native apps end to end: agents build, update, ship, and auto-file fixes from logs. Humans calling EAS CLI drop to… | ||
| Think Fast: OnDevice Vector Features | Mazen Chami | 17m |
Claims that React Native apps can run on-device vector features and do fast private searches offline, demonstrated by a working app that seeds a local SQL DB… | ||
| How I Learned React Native with AI | Erik Hanchett | 19m |
Claims that AI speeds learning but only with the right setup: ChatGPT and Cursor plus agent harness Kiro and Expo skills produce usable scaffolds, older models… | ||
| Prompt Once: Scaling Expo Brownfield Across 100+ Apps | Gabriel Donadel | 21m |
Claim: adding Expo Brownfield to mature native apps avoids rewrites and scales. An automated Tuft agent integrates across 100+ apps, producing XCFramework/SPM… | ||
| Automated Visual Regression & Accessibility Testing | Isabela McLenachen | 24m |
Claims reproducible CI and local suites using Playwright and Docker, with accessibility checks via axe-core and CI orchestration with GitHub Actions… | ||
| Delete Your Global State: Use SQLite as the Ultimate State Manager | Dev Agrawal | 09m |
Claim: delete Redux-style global state and store app state in a local SQLite database. Concrete stack: SQLite as single source of truth, Powers Sync reactive… | ||
| Trailing React Native in a Legacy Mobile App | Dustin Masters | 11m |
Regal pulls React Native into a legacy ticketing app that does millions in revenue, shipping a brownfield, page-by-page strangler fig migration with feature… | ||
| AI-Powered Personalization in React Native at Scale | Megha Hooli | 11m |
React Native clients call a stable API that returns display-ready models and session context instead of raw scores so recommendation systems, personalization… | ||
| Your agents can run, now what? | Mark Goldstein | 15m |
Claim: moving agents into mobile workflows cuts build-feedback from minutes to ~90 seconds, saves thousands of engineering hours, drops PR cycle time by ~30%… | ||
| Silent Execution: Blocking Install-Time Supply Chain Attacks | Chris DeMars | 11m |
Malicious backdoors hit npm packages react-native-country-select and react-native-international-phone-numbers and spread to 134,000 downloads by exploiting… | ||
| Fast by Default: Performance Starts with State | Jay Meistrich | 19m |
Claim: app slowness comes from state placement not lists; a benchmark shows re-rendering at the root is 10× slower than updating a leaf. Uses and compares… | ||
| Haptics: Untapped Potential | Kacper Kapuściak | 23m |
Haptics produce measurable lifts when used intentionally: an AB test adds a 400 ms vibration to add‑to‑cart and increases items per order by 2.7% and net sales… | ||
| How is your app actually doing in production | Kadi Kraman | 20m |
A concrete observability stack for React Native: an open-source client called Observe that sends startup metrics (launch time, bundle load, time to render… | ||
| Software Squares | Infinite Red | 48m |
A live gameshow recreates Hollywood Squares with nine guest stars and two contestants playing a real tic‑tac‑toe grid while answering tech trivia, audience… | ||
| Go All The Way | Seth Webster | 21m |
A developer builds a simple app that captures daily voice recordings and a shared timeline with 1–10 difficulty ratings, invites ENT and speech therapist, and… | ||
| Skylight - Our app from past to present | Alex Lanclos | 26m |
Skylight transforms a fragile JavaScript app into a React Native codebase spanning 2017–2026, adopting TanStack DB for an offline‑first sync model and React… | ||
| First-Class React Native Apps with iOS App Intents | Perttu Lähteenlahti | 20m |
React Native apps become Siri/Spotlight/widgets-ready by adding a Swift/SwiftUI App Intents extension, generating the two targets and defining verbs, nouns… | ||
| Zero-Latency React Native: Apps Without Loading Spinners | Dev Agrawal | 24m |
Claims immediate responses under a simulated 3‑second latency by combining useOptimistic optimistic UI with reactive client local SQLite with PowerSync… | ||
| The UI Was Beautiful. The Frame Rate Wasn’t. Why We Didn’t Fix It. | Nick Kaffine | 21m |
A migration to React Native yields a beautiful UI that still produces dropped frames; dashboards (DataDog/Sentry) reveal high CPU, high memory, and dispersed… | ||
| Giving agents hands and eyes in React Native | Szymon Chmal | 23m |
Agents gain runtime sight and touch via Rosenite and agent device so they can inspect MMKV and AsyncStorage and SQLite and Zustand and Redux, run profiling and… | ||
| One Engine to Animate Them All: React Native Animated in C++ | Zeya Peng | 22m |
Meta replaces four separate native animated implementations with a single shared C++ engine built as a TurboModule using JSI and ships it as a cross‑platform… | ||
| Hot Reload Over the Wire: Metro Internals for Remote Development | Colin Grob | 22m |
Revyl connects Metro bundle resolution to the HMR WebSocket protocol and to Expo development clients by proxying and tunneling Metro traffic into cloud… | ||
| Infinite Red | Chain React 2026 | Infinite Red | 01m |
A three-day conference that claims to gather engineers from Meta, Amazon, and Expo to steer React Native’s roadmap and produce lasting collaborations… | ||
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