The React Native Rewind is what happens when two developers with a decade-plus in the trenches finally admit the obvious: this community has context, and most people never get handed the keys to it.
You can write React Native code for years and still feel like you’re standing outside the pub window while everyone inside is laughing at jokes you’ve never heard.
We’ve spent years building real products with React Native — shipping features, dodging footguns, keeping an eye on the packages that quietly decayed, and celebrating the ones that didn’t.
Along the way, you pick up things: the in-jokes, the acronyms, the folklore, the maintainers who show up at 2am, the ones who vanished in 2019, and the strange gravitational pull of the ecosystem as a whole.
That’s the part no one tells you about. Not because it’s secret, but because there’s never been a proper place to put it. The React Native Rewind exists to make that world legible.
Not in the “here’s a gentle path for beginners” way — more in the “you’re one of us now, here’s what’s actually going on” way. The tone is honest because the ecosystem is honest. The jokes land because the pain is real. And the commentary cuts through the noise because we’re as allergic to marketing fluff as you are.
If you’re a casual React Native developer who wants to feel embedded, informed, and like you genuinely understand what the rest of the community is on about, this is your shortcut.
The React Native Rewind is a way to skip the years of half-heard conversations, Slack threads lost to time, and GitHub drama you only understand on page three.
We’re not gurus.
We’re not influencers.
We’re just two developers who accidentally accumulated a ridiculous amount of context by showing up every day for far too long.
The React Native Rewind is how we hand that context back — to help you feel part of the community, not just someone occasionally passing through it.
