--- title: Plain White Tees in React Native, Meta’s Muse Code, and... description: A newsletter roundup covers three React Native ecosystem items: a new lightweight Plain Text component that trades styling flexibility for rendering... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/plain-white-tees-in-react-native-meta-s-muse-code-and-making-it-to-the-pub-by-6-pm-on-a-friday-pe02alolz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Plain White Tees in React Native, Meta’s Muse Code, and Making It to the Pub by 6 PM on a Friday | daily.dev og:description: A newsletter roundup covers three React Native ecosystem items: a new lightweight Plain Text component that trades styling flexibility for rendering... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/plain-white-tees-in-react-native-meta-s-muse-code-and-making-it-to-the-pub-by-6-pm-on-a-friday-pe02alolz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pE02aLolZ.png og:image:alt: Plain White Tees in React Native, Meta’s Muse Code, and Making It to the Pub by 6 PM on a Friday og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Plain White Tees in React Native, Meta’s Muse Code, and Making It to the Pub by 6 PM on a Friday **[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A newsletter roundup covers three React Native ecosystem items: a new lightweight Plain Text component that trades styling flexibility for rendering performance in large lists; Meta's Muse Code terminal coding agent, which keeps background subagents alive across a session and uses an event log for replay-exact, restart-safe recovery; and Codemagic Patch, an open-source, self-hostable OTA update tool built as a modern replacement for the retired CodePush, using CDN-cached update checks that outperformed a database-backed approach in load tests (6,331 vs 564 requests handled at 1,000 req/s). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happened to CodePush for React Native OTA updates? CodePush went read-only after Microsoft retired App Center in March 2025, ending the standard React Native over-the-air update workflow that had been in use since 2015. Codemagic ran a fork of it for about 18 months before rewriting it entirely into a new tool called Patch, which uses CDN-first delivery, binary diffs, and native fingerprinting instead. _Teams migrating off CodePush can track OTA tooling shifts like this one on daily.dev._ ### How does Codemagic Patch handle update checks differently from a database-backed system? Codemagic Patch stores the update-check answer in a small JSON file on a CDN, so every device reads the same cached file instead of hitting a server and database. In a load test at 1,000 requests per second, Patch handled all 6,331 requests while a database-backed alternative completed only 564, leaving 5,767 queued. _Developers weighing OTA architectures can compare tradeoffs like this on daily.dev._ ### What is different about how Meta's Muse Code coding agent handles subagents compared to other terminal coding agents? Muse Code keeps background subagents alive for an entire session rather than spawning one per task that dies and restarts from scratch. It logs every model call, tool run, approval, and edit locally, making runs replay-exact and restart-safe, so killing the process resumes it exactly where it stopped instead of restarting the task. _Developers evaluating terminal coding agents can follow capability shifts like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [This Week In React \#279: Compiler, TSRX, StyleX, XState, Hook Form, TanStack, shadcn, Chakra, Inertia, Mantine](https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-react-279-compiler-tsrx-stylex-xstate-hook-form-tanstack-shadcn-chakra-inerti-kavpas8k2) · This Week In React · 15 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing Codemagic Patch: an open-source CodePush rebuild for React Native](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-codemagic-patch-an-open-source-codepush-rebuild-for-react-native-lxos7ric3) · codemagic · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Vercel Reinvents React Native, Sub-Second OTA Updates, and an X Button Finally Doing Its Job](https://daily.dev/posts/vercel-reinvents-react-native-sub-second-ota-updates-and-an-x-button-finally-doing-its-job-1mz2odez5) · ITNEXT · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Dressed to Ship](https://daily.dev/posts/dressed-to-ship-92hm4j7cw) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#react-native](https://daily.dev/tags/react-native) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/plain-white-tees-in-react-native-meta-s-muse-code-and-making-it-to-the-pub-by-6-pm-on-a-friday-pe02alolz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Plain White Tees in React Native, Meta’s Muse Code, and Making It to the Pub by 6 PM on a Friday","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/plain-white-tees-in-react-native-meta-s-muse-code-and-making-it-to-the-pub-by-6-pm-on-a-friday-pe02alolz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/plain-white-tees-in-react-native-meta-s-muse-code-and-making-it-to-the-pub-by-6-pm-on-a-friday-pe02alolz"},"datePublished":"2026-08-12T21:04:19.486Z","dateModified":"2026-08-15T22:34:02.328Z","description":"A newsletter roundup covers three React Native ecosystem items: a new lightweight Plain Text component that trades styling flexibility for rendering...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/00c408747a1d3b067eb7fd74af4eaedd?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/00c408747a1d3b067eb7fd74af4eaedd?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ITNEXT","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ITNEXT","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/itnext2","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/itnext"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/plain-white-tees-in-react-native-meta-s-muse-code-and-making-it-to-the-pub-by-6-pm-on-a-friday-pe02alolz","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"mobile,cicd,react-native","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ITNEXT","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/itnext"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Plain White Tees in React Native, Meta’s Muse Code, and Making It to the Pub by 6 PM on a Friday"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/plain-white-tees-in-react-native-meta-s-muse-code-and-making-it-to-the-pub-by-6-pm-on-a-friday-pe02alolz#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What happened to CodePush for React Native OTA updates?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"CodePush went read-only after Microsoft retired App Center in March 2025, ending the standard React Native over-the-air update workflow that had been in use since 2015. 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