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  1. Push Notifications, Deep Linking and Device APIs in React Native: The Seams Nobody DocumentsPush notifications, deep linking and device detection each have a tidy quick-start page. In production they are one feature, and the bugs live in the seams: the cold-start race between a notification tap and a router that has not mounted yet, the channel you cannot edit after creation, and the URL you should not trust just because it arrived in a push payload.EngineeringReact Native11 min
  2. Ads and One-Time Purchases in React Native: A Working Guide to RevenueCat, AdMob and the Failures That Cost Money SilentlyThe free app with a remove-ads purchase is the most common indie model there is, and almost every guide to it stops at the SDK calls. This is the rest: consent ordering, entitlement resolution, interstitial pacing, and the four ways an integration earns nothing while looking perfectly healthy.EngineeringReact Native16 min
  3. Local-First Sync Engines: CRDTs, SQLite and Where the Write Boundary GoesOffline-first is not a caching problem, it is a distributed systems problem you moved onto a phone. The real decision is not which CRDT library — it is where writes become authoritative, and every sync engine answers that differently.ArchitectureEngineering8 min
  4. React Native's New Architecture: JSI, Fabric and the Bridgeless TurboModuleThe bridge is gone — removed outright, not deprecated. What replaced it is a set of C++ abstractions with real performance characteristics, and a new generation of native modules that compile straight to JSI bindings.ArchitecturePerformance7 min