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Alex Hunt

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Alex Hunt

@huntie

⚛ React Native at @Meta. Loves dev tooling and productivity hacks. Avid climber and snowboarder. Optimist. Posts about React Native / Apps / Tech

London, United Kingdom

Joined April 2012

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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Apr 8
🔧 New React Native DevTools goodies in 0.85! Support for multiple CDP connections is huge. You can now have Radon IDE and React Native DevTools — or Agent CDP sessions ⚡ — running simultaneously against the same device, without disconnecting each other.
React Native
@reactnative
Apr 8
Replying to @reactnative
React Native DevTools improvements - Multiple CDP connections: Connect DevTools, VS Code, and AI agents simultaneously - Native tabs on macOS: System-level tab handling for power users
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Sep 5, 2024
Today we announced React Native DevTools, our next-gen + rewritten debugger stack for React Native, coming soon in 0.76.
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Jun 9, 2025
React Native is native ⚛️💪🏻
Robert Eggl
@roberteggl
Jun 9, 2025
Replying to @o_kwasniewski
I just updated Xcode and react native bottom tabs works flawlessly. That's the true power of React Native :)
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Apr 25, 2025
Branch: new-new-app-screen ✨
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Feb 21, 2024
React Native 0.74.0-rc0 is out! 🛠️ This is the first Release Candidate for 0.74. As always, we're encouraging developers and library integrators to try out our prereleases, helping us identify issues as we work towards a stable version.
Release 0.74.0-rc0 · react/react-native
From github.com
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Nov 20, 2023
We're closing in on the stable release of React Native 0.73. RC5 out now!
Release 0.73.0-rc.5 · facebook/react-native
From github.com
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Jul 5, 2025
.@raycast AI 📁✨
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Jan 3, 2025
Finally in our docs: Highlight live re-renders in React Native DevTools ✨ reactnative.dev/docs/react-nat…
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
May 11, 2023
Capabilities of React Native Skia and Gesture Handler have come really far! Love Static View Snapshots 👏🏻 @wcandillon at @appjsconf
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Jun 26, 2023
Package Exports ships (in beta) in React Native 0.72! 🎉 A thread about this feature ⬇️
reactnative.dev
Package Exports Support in React Native · React Native
With the release of React Native 0.72, Metro — our JavaScript build tool — now includes beta support for the package.json "exports" field. When enabled, it adds the following functionality:
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Oct 12, 2023
We've shipped a couple of React Native patch releases today to fix user-blocking bugs around CocoaPods installs and new project creation. Please upgrade to: - 0.72.6 - 0.71.14 - 0.70.x — coming next week Thanks everyone for your patience 🙏🏻
Release 0.72.6 · react/react-native
From github.com
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
May 12, 2023
So happy to have delivered my first talk for @reactnative and @MetroBundler! We're really happy to be back in the community and to be working hard on improving developer experience for React Native users.
Kadi Kraman 💚
@kadikraman
May 12, 2023
Huge announcements from the Metro team including - finally symlink support!!!! 🤯 + about 100 more shipped wip and upcoming features. Metro team are keeping busy! @appjsconf
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
May 30, 2025
Shared today at @appjsconf: Progress on making future React Native releases more stable, by refining the JavaScript API of the react-native package. We're investing in this to give the ecosystem stronger guarantees around the core of React Native, and to make upgrades easier ⬇️
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Alex Hunt
@huntie
Apr 29, 2024
One more thing: Flipper support has been removed from new React Native apps. We've included details and migration guidance in the 0.74 blog post. reactnative.dev/blog/2024/04/2…
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