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

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Rocket Ship

Simon Grimm

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Welcome aboard the Rocket Ship, the ultimate podcast voyage into the heart of React Native development with Simon Grimm! Whether you're a seasoned mobile app developer or just starting your journey, this is your go-to destination for all things React Native and Expo.

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

Rocket Ship

25 minutes

1 month ago

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

This week’s episode covers a mix of major React Native updates, powerful new tools, and insights from publishing my AI-engineered farming game, Tiny Harvest. We also talk about early experiments like React Native Rails and what CSS Grid means for the future of layout on mobile.

⚛️ React Native Radar:

✨ Gifted Chat v3 rewrite – modernized API, performance fixes
📦 New expo-targets library for advanced project configuration
📄 React Navigation PageSheet – new modal presentation style
🧻 ActionSheet v10 – cleaner API & better native behavior
🎨 Skia zIndex – layering now works more intuitively
⚡ Faster JSON parsing improvements from Tzvetan Mikov
🧩 Expo Brownfield Target – integrate RN into existing native apps more easily
🔲 CSS Grid is coming to React Native (!)
🖥️ Radon IDE free trial – RN-focused development environment
🍏 Apple Mini Apps Program announced
📱 How Vercel built the v0 iOS app – great read on architecture & innovation

🧠 From My Projects:

🌬️ My Uniwind experience — what I’ve learned using it in real projects
🌾 I Built a Mobile Farming Game in 6 Days (AI + Expo)
📲 Tiny Harvest is now available on iOS & Android: https://tinyharvest.app/

🚀 Learn React Native: https://galaxies.dev/missions/zero-to-hero

🔥 Weekly Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@galaxies_dev

❤️ Socials

👨‍💻 Apps

Matrix Manager: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/matrix-manager-task-manager/id6739463021
Quick Track: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-track-calorie-counter/id1669892980
Text to Voice AI: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/text-to-voice-ai-reader/id6739965632
Healthy Food Swap: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthy-food-swap/id6743627410

🔗 Links

React Native Advent Calendar: https://galaxies.dev/calendar/2025
Tiny Harvest: https://tinyharvest.app/
Gifted Chat: https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-gifted-chat
Expo Targets: https://github.com/csark0812/expo-targets
Actions Sheet: https://github.com/ammarahm-ed/react-native-actions-sheet/releases/tag/v10.0.0
Hermes JSON: https://x.com/tmikov/status/1993080321626284194
Brownfield Target: https://x.com/swmansion/status/1991177091841208581
CSS Grid: https://github.com/facebook/yoga/pull/1865
Radon Free Plan: https://x.com/swmansion/status/1990801086622429568
How we built the v0 iOS App: https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-built-the-v0-ios-app