React and React Native Meetup
The React & React Native Meetup 2025 showcased talks on creating native-like experiences with React Native, transitioning web developers to mobile, and exploring Zustand's internals. Experts demonstrated building intelligent features with Firebase Vertex AI and introduced BuilderX for seamless design-to-code workflows.
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Keynote: The State of React Native
Sanket Sahu, CTO GeekyAnts explore the state of React Native in his keynote at the React and React Native Meetup. The talk highlighted React Native’s remarkable growth into a versatile, multi-platform framework with 3 million weekly downloads, reflecting its widespread adoption and trust among developers. Its presence in 26% of the top 100 business apps on the App Store and expansion into new domains like Kindle and custom hardware underscore its adaptability and influence in modern app development.
Key Takeaways:
Driven by community innovation and tools like Expo and the new React Native IDE, React Native continues to push boundaries into areas like AR, VR, and WebGPU. While challenges like debugging persist, the ecosystem’s resilience ensures ongoing progress. The keynote reinforced the vision of "Write once, run anywhere," empowering developers to create scalable, cross-platform applications seamlessly.
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Speakers that Took The Stage
The React and React Native Meetup featured comments on the State of React Native, how to bring the native experience to React Native, a deep dive into Gemini with Firebase, and a demo of BuilderX.
Rajat Choudhary, SE-II, GeekyAnts
Wed Developers in the Mobile App World — How tools like NativeWind, gluestack, and Expo's ES Hosting empower web developers. Watch Talk on YouTube or Read Summary Blog
Anubhav Singh, Co-founder, Callchimp.ai
Harsh Pathak, Frontend Engineer, Groww
Akash Gautam, SE-II GeekyAnts
Suraj Ahmed, ADoE, GeekyAnts and Sanket Sahu, CTO, GeekyAnts
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Lighting Talks at the Meetup
The React and React Native Meetup had three lightning talks on topics ranging from webcodecs, financial discipline in tech, and an upcoming app on improving the work of industries.
Harshit Budhraja: Webcodecs Demystified
Harshit explained how WebCodecs provide low-level access to media encoding and decoding, enabling efficient real-time video processing in browsers. He highlighted its impact on performance optimization for streaming and interactive applications.
Manish Jhanwar: General Perspective in IT with Finance
What is the significance of personal finance in one's career? How can you make the right financial choices? These are the important questions Manish answered in his lightning talk.
EduBoard: Asutosha Sahu
Asutosha shared his work with EduBoard, an app that brings in all educational institutes together. It centralizes the operations and learning platform for most of the institutes and has the potential to change the status quo.