Tooling, Taboos & Ridiculous Build Fixes With Cedric van Putten, Tommy Nguyen & Delphine Bugner @CallstackEngineers
Tooling, Taboos & Ridiculous Build Fixes With Cedric van Putten, Tommy Nguyen & Delphine Bugner  @CallstackEngineers
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
What's the most ridiculous thing you've done to fix a React Native build?

We asked Cedric van Putten (Expo), Tommy Nguyen (Microsoft), and Delphine Bugner (MistralAI) in a rapid-fire game. Hear their war stories, from unplugging monitors that block WiFi to writing a custom CLI because the official one broke.

The panel also debates their essential tools (Expo CLI vs. NativeWind vs. rnx-kit), why TypeScript is non-negotiable, and their collective disdain for class components and single `index.ts` files.

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