2.0.0 (Nov 10, 2025)

🚀 Fast Expo App v2.0.0 - Major Update

November 10, 2025

This is a major update with significant improvements to the boilerplate, including upgraded dependencies, new optional modules, and enhanced developer experience.

✨ What's New

Core Updates

• Upgraded to Expo SDK 54 with latest features and improvements
• Upgraded to React Native 0.81 with New Architecture fully enabled
• TypeScript 5.9 with improved type safety
• NativeWind v4.1 for modern Tailwind CSS styling

New Features

• ✅ MMKV v4 - Ultra-fast storage with Nitro Modules (~30x faster than AsyncStorage)
• ✅ TanStack Query v5 - Powerful data fetching and server state management
• ✅ expo-dev-client - Enhanced debugging with native logs and Network Inspector
• ✅ React Native Worklets - Better performance for animations and async operations

Developer Experience

• 🎯 Added dev script for faster development with dev client
• 🎯 Improved MMKV implementation with createMMKV API
• 🎯 Added QueryClientProvider with optimized defaults
• 🎯 Better SafeAreaView configuration with react-native-safe-area-context
• 🎯 Comprehensive AGENTS.md documentation for AI assistants
• 🎯 Fixed iOS linker issues with zlib

Configuration Improvements

• ⚙️ New Architecture fully enabled across iOS and Android
• ⚙️ Optimized Query Client with sensible defaults
• ⚙️ Fixed Metro bundler configuration
• ⚙️ Updated Podfile with proper linker flags

📦 Updated Dependencies

{
  "expo": "~54.0.23",
  "react-native": "0.81.5",
  "react": "19.1.0",
  "nativewind": "^4.1.23",
  "react-native-mmkv": "^4.0.0",
  "@tanstack/react-query": "^5.90.7",
  "expo-dev-client": "~6.0.17",
  "expo-constants": "~18.0.10",
  "react-native-worklets": "0.5.1"
}

🔧 Breaking Changes

• MMKV: Now uses createMMKV() instead of new MMKV()
• New Architecture: Fully enabled - requires pod install and clean build
• React: Upgraded to v19 - may require updates to third-party libraries

📚 Documentation

• Added comprehensive AGENTS.md for AI-assisted development
• Updated README with latest features and setup instructions
• Added React Query usage examples

🙏 Contributors

Special thanks to:

• @neiltalap for suggesting expo-dev-client and debugging tools + update README

🔗 Links

• Boilerplate: https://github.com/Teczer/expo-react-native-nativewind-typescript-boilerplate
• CLI Package: https://github.com/Teczer/fast-expo-app
• Demo: https://fast-expo-app-web.vercel.app/

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