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Expo @expo.dev · Jul 22

🎮 Build 2D physics-based visuals in your React Native app with Matter.js + Skia.

In this new blog post, @wa2goose.bsky.social shows how to simulate motion, collisions, and interaction—all using Expo, with TypeScript and zero native config.

Link + starter project inside 👇
expo.dev/blog/build-2...

How to Build 2D Game-Style Physics with Matter.js and React Native Skia

Learn how to build real-time 2D physics with Matter.js, Skia, and Reanimated in a React Native + Expo app. Perfect for games, simulations, or fun UIs.

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Daniel Friyia 🇨🇦 @wa2goose.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks @expo.dev for letting me publish this fun article 🙂

Expo @expo.dev · Jul 22

🎮 Build 2D physics-based visuals in your React Native app with Matter.js + Skia.

In this new blog post, @wa2goose.bsky.social shows how to simulate motion, collisions, and interaction—all using Expo, with TypeScript and zero native config.

Link + starter project inside 👇
expo.dev/blog/build-2...

How to Build 2D Game-Style Physics with Matter.js and React Native Skia

Learn how to build real-time 2D physics with Matter.js, Skia, and Reanimated in a React Native + Expo app. Perfect for games, simulations, or fun UIs.

expo.dev

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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber.com · Jun 20

React Native Skia + Skia Graphite = 🔥

The 2D/3D composition demo at zero is quite groundbreaking, 👏 @wcandillon.bsky.social

shopify.engineering/webgpu-skia-...

The Future of React Native Graphics: WebGPU, Skia, and Beyond (2025) - Shopify

In the last three years, React Native Skia has established itself as the go-to solution for 2D graphics on React Native. And we are seeing many users pushing the boundaries of what can be done with th...

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · May 18

What are pages on BlueSky? ☺️ I dunno why but I always love this green retro style design.

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Daniel Friyia 🇨🇦 @wa2goose.bsky.social · May 12

Thanks @wcandillon.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to update the gesture example in the “can it be done” repo with simultaneous transformations! These Instagram / Social media features are so fun to make with Skia!

github.com/wcandillon/c...

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · May 6

We gave a sneak peek of Skia Graphite, a new backend of Skia that runs on top of WebGPU. This experimental version of React enables 2d and 3d primitives to be nicely composable with one another at zero-cost just like on the Web.

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · May 6

WebGPU has inspired a cascade of improvements to React Native Skia:
⚡️ Up to 3x performance improvement on animation time and time to first animation frame.
🛠️ 98% of Android crashes fixed and a 13% smaller codebase
📺 Now available on macOS, tvOS, and node.

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · May 6

The game is on: we are bringing WebGPU to React Native. This update enables:
🐎 Seamless Reanimated integration for UI thread rendering
🧊ThreeJS and React Three Fiber are a major focus to bring stunning 3d experiences to React Native.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9t-...

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Oliver Kwast @baumstumpf.bsky.social · May 6

That was a great presentation 👏

Wish I had more time to play with Skia and WebGPU 😭

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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber.com · May 6

The React Native animation ecosystem keeps improving

This ~40min video keeps dropping impressive announcements that it's impossible to summarize

The future is bright: compose and interleave 2D/3D animations in a performant way across all platforms 🤗

William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · May 6

Game On: join us for a special event on May 6th, 5pm Zürich time

We came to play

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9t-...

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · May 6

Game On: join us for a special event on May 6th, 5pm Zürich time

We came to play

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9t-...

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Apr 1

“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.” ― Beth Harmon www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUsF...

The Shader's Gambit

YouTube video by William Candillon

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Mar 31

compute.toys running on top of React Native WebGPU

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Doug Lowder @douglowder.com · Mar 4

Skia, web, mobile, and TV, all in the same Expo app 😀 github.com/react-native...

GitHub - react-native-tvos/SkiaMultiplatform

Contribute to react-native-tvos/SkiaMultiplatform development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Iwo Plaza | TypeGPU @iwoplaza.dev · Feb 13

My TypeGPU & Koota ECS game project works on React Native! 🎮 (cc @pmnd.rs)

It's been a great test bed for JavaScript shaders, as well as for discovering any edge-cases we don't yet support.

#webgpu #typegpu #gamedev #javascript

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Jan 22

To catch up before severance season 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMj...

It's Severance, but in React Native

YouTube video by William Candillon

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Jan 13

Not related to Skia really, simple stuff like pure js matrix multiplication and other algorithmic tasks that feel very slow on release mode on mid-low end Android devices.

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Jan 13

Faster Hermes would change everything for me.

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Doug Lowder @douglowder.com · Jan 10

Thanks to Ruud and @wcandillon.bsky.social for adding TV support to react-native-skia! I got @wa2goose.bsky.social 's excellent victory-native tutorial working today...

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · Dec 29

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 😃

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Dec 29

you clearly have a knack for these ☺️☺️

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Saad Najmi @saadnajmi.bsky.social · Dec 26

Success! For Christmas this year, I got React Native Skia working on macOS!
Along the way I learned quite a bit about Shaders, WebGPU, and just how extensively Skia is used. It's such an interesting space! I'm glad there are still new things to learn in UI dev 😎

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Dec 26

Thank you for the shoutout 🙏☺️

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Dec 11

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · Dec 11

React Skia v1.7.2 is apparently the 200th release of the library
github.com/Shopify/reac...

Release v1.7.2 · Shopify/react-native-skia

1.7.2 (2024-12-11) Bug Fixes 🤖: fix vulkan/angle support (#2801) (e9bb166)

github.com

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