--- title: "React & React Native Blog | AI Engineering | Callstack (page 13 of 33)" description: "Read practical articles on React, React Native, cross-platform development, and AI workflows from Callstack engineers building the tools and products." url: https://www.callstack.com/blog/13 updated: 2026-11-06T10:13:51.208Z --- # React & React Native Blog | AI Engineering | Callstack (page 13 of 33) Read practical articles on React, React Native, cross-platform development, and AI workflows from Callstack engineers building the tools and products. Articles ## Articles for developers, by developers Technical articles on React, React Native, and AI engineering. We share what we learn from building products, maintaining open source, and putting agents to work across software delivery. ### Featured - [Building a Software Factory: Write Specs an Agent Can Build From](https://www.callstack.com/blog/building-a-software-factory-write-specs-an-agent-can-build-from) (AI, 11/6/2026): Szymon Chmal uses a Simlock device-cleanup feature to explain how he plans work for coding agents. Follow the process from code research and product decisions to testable tasks, independent specification checks, and human approval. (by Szymon Chmal) ### Articles, page 13 - [Exposing SwiftUI Views to React Native: An Integration Guide](https://www.callstack.com/blog/exposing-swiftui-views-to-react-native-an-integration-guide) (iOS, 2/27/2025): SwiftUI is increasingly used in iOS apps, but integrating it with React Native can be tricky. This guide walks through how to expose SwiftUI views like SubscriptionStoreView to React Native components, allowing you to build features like paywalls with just a few lines of declarative SwiftUI code. (by Oskar Kwaśniewski) - [How to Build a Chrome Extension: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://www.callstack.com/blog/how-to-build-a-chrome-extension) (Desktop, 2/20/2025): Building a Chrome extension doesn't have to be complicated. This step-by-step guide walks through creating a Pomodoro timer extension, complete with site blocking, screenshots, a settings page, and even a side panel with an AI-powered motivational assistant. (by Mykola Stanislavchuk) - [How to Easily Create Native Libraries With Nitro and Turbo Modules](https://www.callstack.com/blog/bridgeless-native-development) (Developer Experience, 2/12/2025): Creating custom native libraries in React Native used to be complex, with tricky bridging between JavaScript and native code. But now, Nitro Modules make it easy to write performant native code in Swift, Kotlin, and C++ with minimal boilerplate. This article explores how Nitro Modules improve on the legacy Native Modules API and the newer Turbo Modules. (by Burak Güner) - [How to Profile Native Code in React Native Using Tracy](https://www.callstack.com/blog/how-to-profile-native-code-react-native-with-tracy) (Performance, 2/11/2025): Profiling code is essential for uncovering performance bottlenecks. This guide walks through how to use Tracy profiler to measure execution times, identify hotspots, and optimize a React Native image processing module for faster speeds. (by Mariusz Pasiński) - [Bringing WebAssembly to React Native With Polygen](https://www.callstack.com/blog/bringing-webassembly-to-react-native-with-polygen) (Cross-Platform, 2/7/2025): Polygen is a new toolkit that brings WebAssembly to React Native, compiling WASM modules to native C code for near-native performance. It enables using CPU-intensive libraries from the web in React Native apps, with some current limitations. The project is under active development to expand platform support and WASI integration. (by Robert Pasiński) - [Giving AI The Keys to Your App: Agents Controlling UI State](https://www.callstack.com/blog/giving-ai-the-keys-to-your-app-agents-controlling-ui-state) (AI, 2/4/2025): This project shows how to let AI agents control UI state in React apps using Jotai and Flows-AI. By moving logic outside components, agents can autonomously update the UI based on prompts and context to enable smarter, automated workflows. (by Kewin Wereszczyński) - [Flows AI: Your Library for Building AI Workflows on Top of Vercel AI SDK](https://www.callstack.com/blog/flows-ai-your-library-for-building-ai-workflows-on-top-of-vercel-ai-sdk) (AI, 1/22/2025): Flows AI is a lightweight library for building AI agent workflows on top of Vercel AI SDK. It provides a simple, flexible way to orchestrate agents as async functions, with built-in control flow agents for parallel execution and composing flows. (by Mike Grabowski) - [Building AI Agent Workflows With Vercel’s AI SDK: A Practical Guide](https://www.callstack.com/blog/building-ai-agent-workflows-with-vercels-ai-sdk-a-practical-guide) (AI, 1/17/2025): Building AI agent workflows doesn't have to be complex. This practical guide walks through how to use Vercel's AI SDK to create chained, routed, parallel, and evaluator-optimizer workflows step-by-step, with code examples you can try yourself. (by Kewin Wereszczyński) - [Solving Swift Modular Header Issues in React Native for Good](https://www.callstack.com/blog/solving-swift-modular-header-issues-in-react-native-for-good) (iOS, 1/16/2025): Installing React Native libraries can sometimes lead to Swift modular header errors during pod installation. This guide explores why these issues happen and provides practical solutions, including enabling static frameworks and using a custom CocoaPods plugin to automatically resolve the errors. (by Oskar Kwaśniewski) - [From Native to Multiplatform Development: Unpacking Kotlin and Compose](https://www.callstack.com/blog/from-native-to-multiplatform-development-unpacking-kotlin-and-compose) (Cross-Platform, 12/20/2024): Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), Jetpack Compose, and Compose Multiplatform are part of the evolving Kotlin ecosystem, but they solve different problems. KMP lets you share business logic across platforms, Jetpack Compose is for building native Android UIs, and Compose Multiplatform extends it to other platforms. Understanding their roles and relationships helps pick the right tools for your needs. 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[View all](https://www.callstack.com/insights) - [Building a Software Factory: Write Specs an Agent Can Build From](https://www.callstack.com/blog/building-a-software-factory-write-specs-an-agent-can-build-from) (Nov 6 · Article): Learn how to research requirements, resolve open decisions, and write testable specs that AI coding agents can implement without the planning conversation. - [ Large-Scale Migrations With Coding Agents: Planning, Verification, and Rollback](https://www.callstack.com/blog/large-scale-migrations-with-coding-agents-planning-verification-and-rollback) (Nov 4 · Article): Plan codebase migrations with coding agents using reviewable requirements, verification checks, staged rollouts, and defined rollback criteria. - [Conversational Banking: From Customer Questions to Authorized Actions](https://www.callstack.com/blog/conversational-banking-from-customer-questions-to-authorized-actions) (Nov 2 · Article): Explore conversational banking architecture through a card-dispute example, covering tool access, authorization, execution, observability, and human handoff. - [How AI Agents Can Cut Manual QA by 30%](https://www.callstack.com/blog/how-ai-agents-can-cut-manual-qa-by-30) (Oct 30 · Article): Explore an agentic QA workflow targeting 30% less manual effort across mobile, web, and TV, with test selection, failure triage, and validation. - [Building a Software Factory: The Night My Agents Waited for Me](https://www.callstack.com/blog/building-a-software-factory-the-night-my-agents-waited-for-me) (Oct 28 · Article): Learn how permissions, review limits, and missing product decisions stalled two overnight coding agent runs, and how their maintainer revised the workflow. - [Your AI Coding Agent Still Needs an Architecture](https://www.callstack.com/blog/your-ai-coding-agent-still-needs-an-architecture) (Oct 22 · Article): Use explicit contracts, behavior tests, and dependency checks to guide AI coding agents and review their changes through a TypeScript favorites example. - [Who Left the Agents Running? React Native Software Factories](https://www.callstack.com/events/who-left-the-agents-running-react-native-software-factories) (Oct 15 · Live Stream): Join Kewin Wereszczyński and Szymon Chmal to explore what can go wrong in a React Native software factory overnight and the controls that keep agents on track. - [When Coding Gets Faster, What Breaks Next?](https://www.callstack.com/podcasts/when-coding-gets-faster-what-breaks-next) (Oct 14 · Podcast): Matt Hargett explains how AI moves bottlenecks across testing, deployment, infrastructure, support, and the rest of software delivery. - [MCP and Supervisor Agents in eBay's Monitoring Workflow With Leonel Candido da Silva](https://www.callstack.com/podcasts/mcp-and-supervisor-agents-in-ebays-monitoring-workflow-with-leonel-candido-da-silva) (Oct 13 · Podcast): Leonel Candido da Silva explains eBay's agentic monitoring workflow: specialized agents, MCP, PagerDuty reports, and plans to learn from past incidents. - [AI Agent Observability With Ivana Huckova and Sven Großmann](https://www.callstack.com/podcasts/ai-agent-observability-with-ivana-huckova-and-sven-grossmann) (Oct 12 · Podcast): Grafana's Ivana Huckova and Sven Großmann discuss AI agent observability, coding-agent costs, PR analytics, secret redaction, and local guardrails. - [Automating Mobile QA with Cloud Agents](https://www.callstack.com/events/automating-mobile-qa-with-cloud-agents-2) (Oct 7 · Talk): Michał Pierzchała shows how cloud-based QA agents can test real iOS and Android user flows and bring screenshots, recordings, and logs into pull requests. - [Can Jev Make AI Agent Decisions Faster?](https://www.callstack.com/events/can-jev-make-ai-agent-decisions-faster) (Oct 1 · Live Stream): Explore Jev with Kewin Wereszczyński and Szymon Chmal: how it works, its approach to faster agent decisions, and possible local alternatives. - [The Hard Way vs. The React Native AI SDK Way: Stop Writing Custom Modules for Every Model](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/the-hard-way-vs-the-react-native-ai-sdk-way-stop-writing-custom-modules-for-every-model) (Mar 19 · Tutorial): Learn how React Native AI uses a unified provider model to switch between cloud and on-device LLMs without rewriting application logic, enabling reliable AI experiences online and offline. - [Build Smarter Apps: Tool Calling & AI Orchestration Explained](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/build-smarter-apps-tool-calling-ai-orchestration-explained) (Mar 12 · Tutorial): Learn how on-device models in React Native can call tools, interact with external APIs, and return structured outputs you can use directly in application logic. - [MLC LLM + React Native: On-Device AI Without the Pain](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/mlc-llm-react-native-on-device-ai-without-the-pain) (Mar 5 · Tutorial): Learn how to run third-party on-device LLMs in React Native using MLC LLM. Choose your models, run them efficiently across platforms, and keep a unified JavaScript API with React Native AI. - [Intelligent Fallbacks with Apple Intelligence in React Native](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/intelligent-fallbacks-with-apple-intelligence-in-react-native) (Feb 24 · Tutorial): Learn how to use Apple’s built-in Foundation Models in React Native apps, reduce memory usage, and enable fast, fully on-device AI with React Native AI Apple. - [What Is the React Native AI SDK? A Complete Intro & Quickstart](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/what-is-the-react-native-ai-sdk-a-complete-intro-quickstart) (Feb 10 · Tutorial): Learn why on-device AI matters for React Native apps, how local LLMs behave offline, and what problems React Native AI is designed to solve from day one. - [Implementing an Android TurboModule with Kotlin](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/implementing-an-android-turbomodule-with-kotlin) (Jan 29 · Tutorial): Learn how to implement a React Native TurboModule on Android, from the TypeScript spec and Codegen to the Kotlin implementation and package registration. - [Working with Different Threads in Swift TurboModules](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/working-with-different-threads-in-swift-turbomodules) (Jan 19 · Tutorial): Learn how JavaScript, native module, background, and main threads interact in React Native TurboModules, and how to use GCD queues to run async work safely in Swift. - [How to Add Type-Safe Constants to Swift TurboModules](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/how-to-add-type-safe-constants-to-swift-turbomodules) (Jan 9 · Tutorial): Learn how to expose typed, immutable constants from a Swift TurboModule using Codegen, and get full end-to-end type safety between native and JavaScript. - [Adding Event Emitters to Your TurboModule in Swift](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/adding-event-emitters-to-your-turbomodule-in-swift) (Dec 30 · Tutorial): Learn how to emit native events from a Swift TurboModule and subscribe to them in JavaScript, including proper memory management and Codegen integration. - [Writing Your First TurboModule in Swift](https://www.callstack.com/tutorials/writing-your-first-turbomodule-in-swift) (Dec 22 · Tutorial): Learn how to build a fully working TurboModule in Swift, integrate it with Codegen, and bridge it through Objective‑C inside an Expo app.