By name: software-mansion-best-practices description: "Software Mansion's best practices for production React Native apps on the New Architecture. Use when writing, reviewing, or debugging React Native code across animations, gestures, SVG, haptics, on-device AI, multimedia, rich text, multithreading, or audio. Trigger on any React Native implementation question or when a more specific sub-skill below matches the task." version: 1.0.0 metadata: author: Software Mansion license: MIT
React Native Best Practices
Software Mansion's production patterns for React Native apps on the New Architecture.
Read the relevant sub-skill for the topic at hand. All sub-skills are in references/.
Sub-skills
| Sub-skill | When to use |
|---|---|
references/animations/SKILL.md |
CSS transitions, CSS animations, shared value animations, layout animations, animation performance, 120fps, Reanimated 4 |
references/gestures/SKILL.md |
Tap, pan, pinch, swipe, long press, drag — any touch interaction with Gesture Handler |
references/svg/SKILL.md |
Vector graphics, icons, charts, illustrations using React Native SVG |
references/haptics/SKILL.md |
Tactile feedback, vibration patterns, impact/notification haptics |
references/on-device-ai/SKILL.md |
On-device AI: LLMs, computer vision, OCR, audio processing, text/image embeddings |
references/multimedia/SKILL.md |
Video playback and streaming |
references/rich-text/SKILL.md |
Rich text editor, formatted text input, WYSIWYG, mentions, react-native-enriched |
references/multithreading/SKILL.md |
Background processing, Worklets, offloading computation from the JS thread |
references/audio/SKILL.md |
Audio playback, recording, music players, audio sessions |
references/radon-mcp/SKILL.md |
Radon IDE MCP tools - extensive React native app debugging, inspecting, building. This tool allows viewing screenshots, reading logs, inspecting the component tree, debugging network requests, reloading the app, querying RN/Expo docs |