What an 💥 few days it has been for #reactnative core!
I'm over the moon to report that two very important things happened over the last few days! 👇
1️⃣ the monorepo work has been completed!
Started as an RFC back in May 2022 (link github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/pull/480), thanks to the great work from @cortinico and especially @lesiutin, the last PR (github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/36434) has been merged and now the repo is in a MUCH BETTER STATE ✨
2️⃣ we just released the first RC for 0.72!
This will be the first minor to leverage entirely the new monorepo approach - meaning that while the node_module itself will not look different, all the other dependencies will be more granularly controlled 🔍
github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.72.0-rc.0
It wouldn't be a new 0.X of #reactnative⚛️ without good improvements - while we are just starting out the testing phase, you can get a sneak peek of some of the more important changes, and how things will evolve, in the Road to 0.72 issue 👇
github.com/reactwg/react-native-releases/discussions/54
If you feel even more interested, you can also check out the changelog PR - but bear in mind that it's a work in progress and some important changes still need to land / get cherry picked 🍒
github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/36553
So please give this new version a try, and let us know how things are going when you play with this first RC 🧑🔬
the more feedback we can get early on, the more we can ensure that 0.72.0 will be just-that-good 📈