Hey Reader,

This week’s podcast is a fun one - a mix of UI updates, dev experience boosts, and even a little game dev update from Tiny Harvest.

🎙️ CSS Grid, Faster JSON, Uniwind Experience, React Native Rails & Tiny Harvest Update

Inside this one:

• 🧱 CSS Grid support is getting real in React Native
• ⚡️ JSON parse performance is improving in Hermes
• 🧬 A surprisingly nice DX experience with Uniwind
• 🛤️ What’s up with React Native Rails?
• 🎮 Tiny Harvest: AI-generated features, game mechanics, and where we’re headed next

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Catch all the links below — and as always, keep building & keep shipping.
Simon ✌️​

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✨ CSS Grid, Faster JSON, Uniwind Experience, React Native Rails & Tiny Harvest Game Update

This week’s episode is packed with performance breakthroughs, new UI tooling, graphics innovation, and my own deep dive into AI-assisted game development.

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✨ React Native Advent Calendar

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💫 Nebula Notes

1. ​React Native Gifted Chat v3 (Release)
   One of my favorite libraries got a full TS rewrite, updated dependencies and new functionalities - get it while it's hot!
2. ​Rails for Universal React Native (Tweet)
   Super curious what Nate (creator of Tamagui) has been working on but I love the idea of a batteries included React Native.
3. ​Hermes JSON parsing 3x Faster (Update)
   Good news for all content heavy apps out there: Looks like your JSON parsing will be substantially faster in the near future!
4. ​New Brownfield Config Plugin (Plugin)
   This new Expo config plugin makes it easier to extend your app with native targets and distribute it as a brownfield project.

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