Saad Najmi
@saadnajmi.bsky.social
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React Native macOS maintainer at Microsoft
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Where are you extracting all the class names to?
It was fun to talk to y'all! 🥳
🖤❤️ RNR 334 ❤️🖤

This week: React Native on desktop?

@saadnajmi.bsky.social from Microsoft joins our hosts to talk about bringing React Native to macOS! They talk about what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next.

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React Native Radio - RNR 334 - React Native MacOS with Saad Najmi
Saad Najmi from Microsoft joins Jamon, Robin, and Mazen to talk React Native macOS—how it works, where it shines, and what’s still missing.
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Welcome to the annual meat grinder :D
Is it like a, population center isn often where civil unrest happens kinda thing? I know that’s why a lot of places move their capitals
OK that was pretty cool!
What’s the thing here? A cop with a cat on it?
I’m quite fond of sharks
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Giving away two wonderful books by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social - The Third Bear and Hummingbird Salamander!

To win, repost + comment your favorite animal.
I'll pick someone next Friday 6/13 - shipping paid & open to intl.

**You do not have to follow me**
Hi! I need to check bluesky more lol.
It’s actually the only social media left installed on my newest attempt to limit doomscrolling
Thanks also to @kwasniew.ski who helped a lot with the proposal and implementation! I’m glad it’s getting used :)
We do so much brown field development internally (think React Native task panes / floating windows in Microsoft Office) that I forget how performant a blank app can be 😅, thanks @jayz.us for trying it out!
I made an app that opens faster than any Mac app I've seen, loading a 5500 line markdown file instantly.

It's not Swift. Not Rust. Not C++.

It's JavaScript! react-native-macos is INSANELY fast 🤯

And 10% the size of an Electron app!

I had no idea RN on desktop is this good.
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Stephen Hawking was born #OTD in 1942. He developed theorems with Penrose that determine when general relativity produces singularities, established classical laws of black hole mechanics, and hypothesized that quantum effects cause black holes to radiate. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Image: Santi Visalli/Getty
I start work again tomorrow and I already have two presentations + a rush bug fix to get in this week, welcome 2025 🫣

2+ weeks of vacation was pretty nice though 😄
Eh this took me like 3 days, mostly to learn all the new stuff. But yeah that’s what holidays are for! :D
I was too lazy to use the same photo 😅
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🧑‍🎄 Node.js now supports TypeScript by default 🤯 🎄
Apple demo code and ChatGPT are surprisingly useful!
Can it be done in React Native, yes!
At WWDC 2024, Apple added a new API for creating custom UI effects using Metal shaders. I wanted to see if you could do the same with React Native. With react-native-skia, you can! Left is the Apple demo, right is skia on react-native-macos 😃