Joined July 2016
New storage tool coming in the next release of the Codex Mobile Dev plugin βœ¨πŸ“¦
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We are releasing React Native Skia version 3.0 which runs WebGPU by default. By moving away from the OpenGL-centric design, it allows for multithreading by default as well as deep integration with three.js, vision camera, and transformer.js youtube.com/watch?v=L-PNQi1n…
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Big News: Margelo has been acquired by @callstackio for over EUR 20 million. πŸ₯³ I founded Margelo 5 years ago, knowing nothing about business - I actually dropped out of economics university after 3 days. We built our reputation for high-end performance software through open-source libraries like VisionCamera (40M downloads) and react-native-mmkv (67M downloads), and quickly landed high-profile clients like Discord, Coinbase, Expensify and VSCO. Two years ago we doubled down on mobile architecture with Nitro (34M downloads), which gained rapid adoption in the community and allowed us to bring even more ideas to life. I’ve been friends with Mike from Callstack for a long time, which makes me even more excited to remain a significant shareholder and bring mobile technology to a whole new level. I'd like to thank my team for shaping Margelo into what it is today. ❀️
πŸŽ‰ @margelo_com Joins Callstack to Advance High-Performance React Native Engineering Vienna, Austria. 1 September 2026.Β Callstack, a leader in React Native and cross-platform development, today announced that Margelo, the Vienna-based high-end engineering company behind Nitro Modules, VisionCamera and react-native-mmkv, is joining Callstack in a transaction valuing Margelo at more than EUR 20 million. Margelo builds high-performance technology for React Native. Nitro Modules (34M downloads) lets developers write fast, type-safe native modules in C++, Swift or Kotlin, and quickly gained widespread traction across the ecosystem. VisionCamera (40M downloads), Margelo's enterprise-grade open-source Camera framework and react-native-mmkv (67M downloads), a key-value storage library, power countless React Native apps today. Callstack has spent a decade helping large organizations adopt, scale and operate React Native, contributing to the framework and its open-source ecosystem along the way. Together, the two teams give clients the strongest React Native performance expertise in the market, backed by delivery proven in complex enterprise environments. Margelo's technology and Callstack's delivery experience will now be available to the same clients. The timing reflects a fundamental change in how software is built. AI is making implementation faster and cheaper, but architecture, performance, native integration, validation and release safety are becoming more important, not less. These are the fundamentals on which both companies have built their reputations and on which they will continue to build together. "Margelo has built some of the strongest performance technology in React Native. Callstack has spent a decade helping large organizations adopt and scale the framework. Bringing those strengths together gives us the team and reach to solve more of the hard problems that determine whether software succeeds in production," said Mike Grabowski, CEO and Founder of Callstack. "At Margelo, we’ve built high-performance technology that developers already rely on. We’re excited to partner with Callstack to bring it to more clients and scale its impact. As software development becomes increasingly agentic, we want that technology to provide the foundation teams need to build reliable software with agents," said Marc Rousavy, CEO and Founder of Margelo. Margelo's existing open-source libraries will remain open source. Marc will continue to lead their development and help shape the combined company's offering. The transaction follows Callstack's 2025 growth investment and supports its strategy to expand technology and open-source capabilities while growing internationally.
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React Native is single-threaded where it matters most. Parse a big payload, hash a file, filter an image β€” it all competes with your UI for the same runtime. react-native-workers brings real background threads to RN, behind the Web Worker API Public alpha today🧡
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Easily one of the most fun things I've built with the team at @margelo_com, and that's saying something after 4 years here. We basically wrote our own native AV engine with sample-level sync and hardware decode, then got it talking to React Native through Nitro
So we kinda reinvented the wheel and built a fully custom AV engine and composition library for MyGroove because ExoPlayer, AVFoundation and ffmpeg weren't fast- or powerful enough πŸ‘€
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Congrats Jay!
Legend List 3.0 is here! πŸŽ‰ ✨ React DOM support ✨ Even faster, more stable ✨ Perfect initial scroll ✨ KeyboardAwareLegendList for chat and AI apps ✨ Reanimated item transitions ✨ So much more! It’s been almost 1,000 commits since v2, super excited to finally release it!
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LegendList is looking ready for a 3.0 release πŸŽ‰ It's working well in production in both React and React Native. I caught up on most open issues, closed stale PRs, and merged a few great contributions ❀️. Does anyone know of anything that should be fixed before I ship 3.0?
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Introducing Project Redraw, a new grade of 2d primitives for Web & Native
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In LegendList 3.0.0-beta.52, KeyboardChatLegendList is ready for production use! πŸŽ‰ Keyboard avoiding feels solid, anchoredEndSpace for AI chats is solid, and I added a hook to easily animate scroll to the end and close the keyboard when sending a message.
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Really excited about this one. New Kotlin compiler plugin in Expo SDK 56 replaces reflection with build-time code gen for Expo Modules on Android. ~40% faster cold starts, ~33% faster first render in our benchmarks. No changes needed in your app!
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I found something interesting πŸ‘€ expo-modules rely on Kotlin reflection, and the initialization is noticeable on low-end androids. On my device (Samsung A16), expo-updates takes about 200ms to init, and expo-image ~100ms. ...
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Ever wondered why animations on #reactnative's new architecture were so laggy? We partnered with the @discord team, found the bottlenecks, and helped make their mobile app feel buttery smooth. Here’s the before/after πŸ‘‡
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Sneak peek: react-native-release-profiler 2.0 β€’ Release-only β€’ Renders + Hermes samples + RN systraces β†’ single Perfetto trace β€’ Built for agents β€’ FPS β€’ Memory β€’ Humans can try --visualise-for-human if they insist πŸ˜„
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In collab with @swmansion, VisionCamera V5 switched from πš›πšŽπšŠπšŒπš-πš—πšŠπšπš’πšŸπšŽ-πš πš˜πš›πš”πš•πšŽπšπšœ-πšŒπš˜πš›πšŽ to πš›πšŽπšŠπšŒπš-πš—πšŠπšπš’πšŸπšŽ-πš πš˜πš›πš”πš•πšŽπšπšœ. You can now mutate Reanimated SharedValues directly inside a Frame Processor. Instant UI feedback from worklet-side detection!
It's finally done. I just released VisionCamera V5, the biggest update to VisionCamera ever, and my biggest open-source project ever (1/5) πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰πŸΎ
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It's finally done. I just released VisionCamera V5, the biggest update to VisionCamera ever, and my biggest open-source project ever (1/5) πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰πŸΎ
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A bit late to the party; this is pretext running in a small VisionCamera V5 Frame Processor using Skia for super-efficient realtime rendering in #reactnative πŸ’¬πŸ˜
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We plugged our πš›πšŽπšŠπšŒπš-πš—πšŠπšπš’πšŸπšŽ-πš—πš’πšπš›πš˜-πšπšŽπšπšŒπš‘ library into @bluesky's app and configured prefetching - it took us a whole 3 minutes and made the app load 500000000000000000000 zeptoseconds faster! 🀯 Try Nitro Fetch today! πŸ“²
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"100 seconds of" is a brand new original concept where we explore tech topics in 100 seconds. First episode is about React Native WebGPU youtube.com/watch?v=t3rTRMDo…
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Happy Birthday, React Native πŸŽ‚
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Finally got to build this. Create animations that use Core Animation on iOS and Animator on Android with zero JS overhead. Same animation. But one keeps running smoothly even when the UI thread is lagging. Introducing react-native-ease πŸƒ
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