Jamie Birch (@birch

Jamie Birch

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Jamie Birch

@birch_js

All-terrain dev working across web, native, TV, and backend for over a decade, with a particular masochism for React Native and NativeScript.

Tokyo-to, Japan

Joined June 2017

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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Aug 20, 2025
Pretty surreal to see @theo covering my article! I caught it live, so can assure it was a fun watch from my point of view. 🍿 Theo also caught the fact that React Native deploys to e-ink Kindles and PlayStations, which I overlooked! Tempted to add those to the addendum now 😄
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Aug 9, 2025
Took me days to work out the reason why the event-handling wasn't working properly in my web app for iOS. Obviously, all I needed to do was add a no-op double-click event handler on the document with an angry comment inside
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Sep 26, 2025
After 6+ years of failed experiments, it's finally working. Direct native API access from JS in React Native 🥹 Access the full iOS SDK – like a native dev. Cross threads – like a native dev. Today, my brother in JavaScript, you are a native dev.
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Oct 25, 2025
Dude makes a React Native app that generates stories for kids. Named it DreamWeaver. Absolute honest mistake if you’re under the age of 25
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Oct 29, 2025
Google just took a look at all the antitrust lawsuits Apple has been embroiled in over App Store monopolisation and thought “hey, it’s about time we did some of that”
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Dec 5, 2022
I asked ChatGPT to "write a program in Rust that transpiles TypeScript code to JavaScript code" and it printed out the mother of all TODO notes. (Sorry @kdy1dev)
Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Apr 1, 2024
Can't believe it. I've been trying to bring seamless native API access to React Native for 5+ years, and just tackled the final boss. We just called an arbitrary UIKit API from JS, on the UI thread, with no native code – thanks to NativeScript, Node-API, and Reanimated. 🥹🚀
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Nov 13, 2025
React Native Windows was able to drop 83,094 lines of code by dropping support for Old Architecture 🤯
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Oct 20, 2025
A masterful article explaining the distinction between `type` vs. `interface` in TypeScript! - Types are eagerly evaluated - Interfaces are lazily evaluated A far better explanation than any of the resources I've come across in English.
じょうげん
@j_ktwr
Oct 19, 2025
【結論】TypeScriptの型定義はtypeよりinterfaceを使うべき理由｜じょうげん zenn.dev/bmth/articles/… #zenn 記事を書きました
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Oct 20, 2025
Announcing my new personal docs site, Birchdocs! 🍾 Here I'm sharing everything I've learned over 10 years as a software engineer. I plan to cover React Native, Expo, web dev, Node.js dev, native platforms, and more. And all advanced topics, not shallow stuff. Link below!
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Sep 29, 2025
Wake up babe, Evan Wallace is cooking again
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Oct 22, 2021
It's released! 🚀 📲 Call any iOS API from React Native via JS, synchronously, without touching native code. 🙅 Never write a native module again (maybe) 🚫🌉 Powered by JSI! 🗣️ We have a Discord! Tell me what you think! 🧑‍💻
GitHub - shirakaba/react-native-native-runtime: The Objective-C runtime exposed directly to React...
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Mar 5, 2021
Announcing Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI! 🚀 – Runtime: @nodejs – GUI: @qtproject – Renderer: @sveltejs – Platforms: macOS/Windows/Linux Based on @a7ulr's NodeGUI + @halfnelson_au's Svelte Native! ❤️ ⭐️ appreciated!
GitHub - nodegui/svelte-nodegui: Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications...
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Jamie Birch
@birch_js
Oct 29, 2025
"xcodebuild" exited with error code 65
Khalid Warsame
@KhalidWarsa
Oct 29, 2025
Android is a bad platform to work on. iOS build problems? ✅ clean pod ✅ re-install pod ✅ iOS app builds Android build problems? ❌ manually configure gradle settings ❌ update NDK ❌ accept licenses Abandon Android cause Google already removed my dev account and app.
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