React Native in 2025: What’s New & What’s Next?

If you build mobile phone apps then this is a must for you!

React native in 2025 has been a game-changer in mobile application development. React Native is evolving fast with improved performance and seamless developer experience.

In this article, we’re going to see:

• How React Native Architecture has become a new standard
• Expo’s new features
• Metro Bundler 3.0
• Smarter Development with: React Native + AI
• Future of React Native

Let’s get started

React Native’s New Architecture is Now the Standard

Do you remember how Fabric and TurboModules were just “upcoming features”  Well In 2025, React has become powerful as the upcoming features has become live and fully integrated with the React architecture.

Why It’s Important?

• Much Better Performance: With direct communication between JS and Native threads, Rendering has became more powerful.
• Better Debugging: No more getting frustrated by old bridge gap and sitting for long hours to debug.
• Smooth UI and Animations: 60FPS buttery smooth UI with Skia-based rendering

Action Items For You

1. Migrate your app to the new Architecture
2. Read more about JSI (JavaScript Interface) for deeper native integrations.
3. Use and work with React Server Components which are now supported by React Native!

Expo is More Powerful Than Ever

Have you used expo and been frustrated with the lack of support and resources to fix any issue? But here comes an even better Expo for production apps.

What’s New?

• Expo Router V2: Fully supports SSR(Server Side Rendering), nested navigation and parallel loading.
• AI-powered Debugging: This is a big-time saviour I would say, saving a lot of time with new AI-assisted debugging.

Action Items For You

1. If you’re using bare React Natuve, consider migrating to Expo’s managed workflow.
2. Explore about Expo’s new EAS (Expo Application Services) features for faster CI/CD.
3. Work with Expo’s new Camera, AR, and gesture APIs for enhanced UX.

Metro Bundler 3.0: Faster Builds with Small Bundlers

React Native 2025 ships with Metro 3.0, bringing major speed boosts.

Why It’s a Game Changer?

• 60% Faster Building: With parallel processing and smarter caching building the apps has become significantly faster.
• Tree Shaking & Dead Code Elimination: Apps are now smaller and faster

Action Items For You

1. Upgrade to Metro 3.0 for automatic bundler optimization.
2. For better tree shaking use ES Moduled instead of CommonJS

Smarter Development with: React Native + AI

With AI dominating in every field, how come React Native will be left behind?

How AI is Optimising the Development Experience in React Native

• AI-powered Debugging: Using tools like Github Copilot X
• Automated UI testing: AI-based test suites for detecting UI inconsistencies.
• Faster Development: With AI assisting in writing cleaner and optimised code, development is now faster with AI

The Future of React Native: What’s Next?

What we can expect in upcoming React Native versions.

• Faster Start-Up Time — Making the cold app starts instantly.
• Web & Desktop Support Expanding — More Better support to cross-platform
• Enhanced Debugging — More better debugging and issue resolutions.

Conclusion:

React Native = More Power = More AI = More Speed

With increasing demand of mobile applications React native will keep on evolving and with the increase in demand comes better performance, better support and better user and developer experience.

If you’re a React Native developer now is the time for you to upgrade yourself and stay ahead.

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