react-native-expo
skills/react-native-expo/
references/sources.md
Sources and further reading
Cross-checked against the official Expo and React Native documentation plus the following. Where guidance conflicted, the official docs won.
Expo and React Native platform
- Expo SDK 55 changelog
- React Native 0.83 release notes
- New Architecture, Expo docs
- React Compiler, Expo docs
- React Compiler v1.0, React blog
- Expo SDK 55 migration guide, React Native Relay
Routing and structure
- Core concepts of file-based routing, Expo docs
- Project structure, Obytes React Native starter
- Best folder structure for Expo and React Native apps, Engin Bolat
- React Native project structure: a best practices guide, Tricentis
- Expo Router in 2026: file-based navigation, auth and pitfalls
Atomic design and component architecture
- Atomic Design, chapter 2, Brad Frost
- Understanding how Atomic Design is used in React Native, LogRocket
- Rethinking Atomic Design in React projects, Cheesecake Labs
- Atomic Design in React and React Native applications, Paul Onteri
- What's wrong with the Atomic Design system, Bridge Studio
- 4 misconceptions of Atomic Design, Webstacks
- Atomic Design: build UIs that actually scale, Feature-Sliced Design
- Alternatives, Feature-Sliced Design docs
- Container/presentational pattern, patterns.dev
The split used in this skill, where the design system stops at templates and organisms belong to features, is the practical reconciliation of the two critiques above: atomic design gives good vocabulary for UI reusability, and feature slicing gives the ownership boundary it lacks.
State, data, and hooks
- Reusing logic with custom hooks, React docs
- Writing custom hooks in React: patterns, pitfalls, and when to reach for one
- React hooks anti-patterns, Mani Suec
- Zustand and TanStack Query: React Native guide 2026
- React state management in 2026: a data-driven comparison, Sascha Becker
- React Native state 2026: Zustand vs Redux Toolkit vs Jotai
- Ultimate guide to form validation in React Native with React Hook Form and Zod
- Please stop using barrel files, TkDodo
- The React mistakes that only show up at scale, Depender Sethi
Styling and design tokens
- NativeWind vs Tamagui vs Unistyles in 2026, React Native Journal
- Modern approaches to styling React Native apps, Codeminer42
- Uniwind benchmarks
- React Native theming system: design tokens and dark mode, Atomic Robot
- Build a scalable React Native design system, gluestack
Performance
- React Native performance optimization: the 2026 playbook, RapidNative
- FlashList v2: a ground-up rewrite for the New Architecture, Shopify Engineering
- Migrating to FlashList v2
- React Native best practices 2026: performance and architecture, Applighter
Testing, accessibility, security
- Accessibility, React Native docs
- React Native testing guide 2026, React Native Relay
- How to test React Native apps: frameworks and strategy 2026, Drizz
- Maestro React Native automation setup guide
- React Native MMKV vs AsyncStorage vs Expo SecureStore, PkgPulse
- React Native security best practices for 2026, Labs Quokka
- React Native features, Sentry docs