2025-09-23 · #3
React Native Weekly #3 Blur Filter Support, Nativewind v5, CAPSULE Vibe Coding IDE and more
There were no particularly big React Native news stories this week.
Blur Filter Support Merged into React Native#
An implementation that enables Blur filter support on React Native iOS has been merged. It appears to use SwiftUI APIs internally — no Private APIs involved.
Congratulations to @nishanbende and thanks to @expo for championing this—the filter property PR has been merged into React Native, enabling blur, drop shadow, contrast, and most of the CSS filter options. 🎉🎉🎉 github.com/facebook/react-nati…
Got blur, grayscale and other SwiftUI supported filters working on iOS (no private APIs). Will do a PR by tomorrow. Needs some cleanup. This took some time. It required wrapping views in a SwiftUI view because apple does not want to make the UIKit supported "CAFilter" API public
Nitro Text#
Nitro Text has been released — a feature-rich, high-performance Text component built with Nitro Modules. Currently it only supports iOS; on Android it falls back to React Native’s standard Text component.
https://twitter.com/patrickkabwe_/status/1969688695222440237
CAPSULE — A Vibe Coding IDE Powered by Expo#
An open-source vibe coding IDE built with Expo, similar to Rork and Bolt.new, has been announced. It lets you build your own vibe coding platform on top of Expo.
CAPSULEvibe code mobile appswww.capsulethis.comOSS ALERT🚨Releasing @capsulethis: the first @expo vibe coding IDE completely open sourced. Now anybody will be able to create their own vibe coding platform that creates mobile apps. This is the first public sneak peek w/ some of the features you will get out of the box.
Create Lynx App Is in Development#
Not React Native, but Lynx — another framework that lets you build mobile/web apps in a React-like style — appears to have a CLI in the works. It would be great to see the Lynx community grow and make development even easier.
the simplest way to create new Lynx apps is coming very soon🔥
Nativewind v5 Is in Development#
Documentation is being put together, and work on Nativewind v5 itself is actively underway. Looking forward to seeing what this update brings!
Preliminary docs for v5 are ready, still working through the actual release. Looking like it’ll creep into next week.
One More Thing#
No major React Native news this week, but I did sneak in one Lynx story. I wrote a first-impressions article about Lynx on Zenn, and while I was excited to try it, I did feel it still has some catching up to do compared to React Native — in terms of setup, dev tooling, and community maturity. That said, it seems to be making steady progress, so I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes!
次世代クロスプラットフォームフレームワーク「Lynx」 ファーストインプレッションZenn