SSussanainsussanateye.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 5 min readI'm a Web Developer. Building My First Mobile App With AI Nearly Broke My Brain.Three weeks into building my first mobile app, I was staring at a crashed Expo Go session for the fourth time that hour, scrolling through a wall of terminal errors that made no sense, thinking: I kno01F
ALAnthony Lucasinmake-it-run-blog.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 2 min readReduce Expo Monorepo CI Build TimeExpo monorepo CI gets slow and flaky for the same reason: we treat all caches as one thing. Then builds run from the repo root, one app reuses another app’s Metro state, or native cache is blamed for 00
YYinginuidev.net·2d ago · 7 min readBuilding an Apple App Clip with React Native & ExpoWhen building a mobile application, one of the biggest conversion bottlenecks is download friction. If someone comes to our website svastha.co through Safari, a social post, or an iMessage link, we'd 00
HSHafizuddin Sharif Umar Sharifinhafizuddinsharif.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 3 min readBuilding Kerisik but at what cost?Building and maintaining something always comes with a cost, and building Kerisik was no exception. In this article I'll explain what it cost to build the app and what it costs to maintain it. 💡 Jus00
CFChris F Ainapplighter.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 11 min readHow to Ship a React Native App in Days, Not MonthsYou can ship a React Native app in days. Not with vibes, not with an AI agent that hallucinates a schema, and not by writing a screen a night for six months. You ship in days when the boring, load-bea00
FMFamitha M Ainfami-blog.hashnode.dev·Sep 10 · 8 min readOTA Update Discipline in React Native: A Production Playbook for EAS Update Every React Native team I have talked to has the same OTA story. Week one: "this is magic, we shipped a fix in four minutes." Month three: "we pushed a bad bundle to 100% of users on a Friday and spen00
CFChris F Ainapplighter.hashnode.dev·Sep 10 · 8 min readBuying vs Building a React Native Template in 2026: The Real MathThe buy vs build debate for React Native templates usually goes like this: one side says "why pay for something I can write in a weekend," the other says "your time is worth more than the template cos00
CFChris F Ainapplighter.hashnode.dev·Sep 9 · 11 min readOpen-sourcing parts of our React Native template engineWe open-sourced parts of our React Native template engine last month. Not all of it. The theme engine, the ProductData config schema, the UI primitives, and the docs are public. The Stripe webhook, th00
FMFamitha M Ainfami-blog.hashnode.dev·Sep 9 · 15 min readHow to Build a Restaurant Ordering App from Scratch (2026 Guide)The restaurant industry runs on margins so thin that a 2% swing in operating costs decides who stays open. Third-party delivery apps take 15–30% per order. Owning your own restaurant ordering app is n00
ASAsta Silvainastasilva.hashnode.dev·Sep 7 · 12 min readHow to Fix Expo Doctor Errors in ExpoIf you work with Expo long enough, you will probably run into expo-doctor. You run: npx expo-doctor and instead of everything being green, you get something like: ✖ Check Expo config ✖ Check dependen00
