--- title: "React & React Native Blog | AI Engineering | Callstack (page 29 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/29 updated: 2026-11-06T10:13:51.208Z --- # React & React Native Blog | AI Engineering | Callstack (page 29 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 29 - [Introducing React-Native-iOS-Kit](https://www.callstack.com/blog/introducing-react-native-ios-kit) (Open Source, 1/16/2018): React Native developers often have to recreate common iOS components from scratch. react-native-ios-kit is an open-source library that provides a set of highly customizable UI components designed with iOS guidelines in mind, making it easier to build apps that look and feel native on iOS. (by Adam Trzciński) - [Simple Chat App With React Native - Part II](https://www.callstack.com/blog/simple-chat-app-with-react-native-part-2-frontend) (Backend, 12/28/2017): Connecting a React Native chat app frontend to a backend involves setting up Socket.IO for real-time communication, using Redux for state management, and creating actions and reducers to handle sending and receiving messages. This guide walks through the key steps, from connecting to the server to displaying conversations and messages in the UI. (by Łukasz Walczak) - [React Native - How to Check What Passes Through Your Bridge?](https://www.callstack.com/blog/react-native-how-to-check-what-passes-through-your-bridge) (Developer Experience, 12/6/2017): Debugging the React Native bridge is crucial for optimizing performance. This guide shows how to use the MessageQueue module to spy on data passing between JavaScript and native code, so you can identify unnecessary communication that may be overloading the bridge and causing your app to freeze. (by Piotr Drapich) - [React Developer’s Everyday Struggle - Extending Big Applications](https://www.callstack.com/blog/react-developers-everyday-struggle-extending-big-applications) (Scalability, 11/23/2017): Extending large React apps can be tricky in practice. We walk through the options we considered for adding form validation to the EEDI educational platform, and how we landed on a "function as child" pattern to meet our requirements without heavy refactoring. (by Jakub Kłobus) - [React Native Meets iPhoneX](https://www.callstack.com/blog/react-native-meets-iphonex) (iOS, 11/16/2017): The new iPhone X brings a stunning edge-to-edge display, but it requires some extra work to adapt React Native apps. This guide walks through the key steps to update your app for the iPhone X screen, with a focus on using react-native-navigation. (by Raul Gomez Acuna) - [Testing a React App With Cypress](https://www.callstack.com/blog/testing-react-app-with-cypress) (Testing, 11/6/2017): Cypress is a new open-source testing tool that makes it fast and easy to write end-to-end tests for web apps. We walk through setting up Cypress to test core auth flows like login and logout in a real React app. (by Adam Trzciński) - [Simple Chat App With React Native - Part I](https://www.callstack.com/blog/simple-chat-app-with-react-native-part-1-backend) (Backend, 10/23/2017): Building a chat app with React Native doesn't have to be complicated. In this two-part series, we walk through how to create the backend using Hapi.js for the server, MongoDB for the database, and Socket.IO for real-time communication. This post focuses on setting up the core infrastructure and defining routes to create conversations and messages. (by Łukasz Walczak) - [Adding an Example App to Your React Native Library](https://www.callstack.com/blog/adding-an-example-app-to-your-react-native-library) (Developer Experience, 10/12/2017): Adding an example app to your React Native library can be tricky due to limitations with Metro bundler. This guide walks through how to configure Babel and Metro to make the process easier, whether you're using Expo or vanilla React Native. (by Satyajit Sahoo) - [The Story of Rewriting React-Native-Opentok and the Challenges Encountered](https://www.callstack.com/blog/story-of-rewriting-react-native-opentok-and-challenges-that-we-have-encountered-down-the-road) (Open Source, 10/10/2017): Rewriting the react-native-opentok library posed unique challenges on Android and iOS. This article dives into the nitty-gritty of debugging tricky native issues like updating views on Android and tracking down EXC\_BAD\_ACCESS errors on iOS. (by Piotr Drapich) - [Time to Detox](https://www.callstack.com/blog/time-to-detox) (Testing, 10/5/2017): Detox is a new end-to-end testing library for React Native that allows you to simulate user interactions and make assertions on the app's interface. This guide walks through how to set up Detox with Jest and write your first tests to check for expected text and behavior. 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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. 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