Last week, Software Mansion announced the alpha release of Reanimated 2. Version 2 is a complete paradigm shift in the way we build gestures and animations in React Native. Last January, at the React Native Community meetup in Kraków, Krzysztof Magiera, co-creator of gestures and animations in React Native, mentioned the idea of a new implementation of Reanimated based on a concept borrowed from an experimental web API, animation worklets: JavaScript functions that run on an isolated context to ...